Thought provoking
The Retreating Human: God of the Gaps Logic in AI Resistance
substack.com
“The problem with this move is not that it is wrong to notice gaps. Gaps are real and important. The problem is that it becomes a kind of motte-and-bailey: it defines “human” precisely as “whatever machines cannot do (yet).” That definition is, by construction, unfalsifiable. It is also unhelpful for guiding real-world decisions about governance, labor, or ethics.”
Productivity is the deliberate, strategic investment of your time, talent, intelligence, energy, resources, and opportunities in a manner calculated to move you measurably closer to meaningful goals.
Dan S. Kennedy • No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Guide to Time Productivity and Sanity
How AI May Change Social Media
doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz
“So don’t expect the web to be swamped by faceless AI content. The value of being a person may go up as the price of everything else approaches zero.”
Actually, fuck answers, the more I think about it. The best questions don’t have answers. The point of the question isn’t to find an answer. The best questions are organizing principles, magnets, ways of seeing.
Taking the default path is not safe. It’s more like opting into a game of Russian roulette, where the cost of losing is wasting your one chance to enjoy your life.
Public spaces shouldn’t require paying for goods and services.
Private Paths and Public Space: A Comparative History of Grade-Separated Pedestrian Systems in Minneapolis and Montreal
Just as we needed time to see the invisible emissions of the Industrial Revolution, we are only now coming to grips with the negative externalities of a phonebound and homebound world. The media theorist Marshall McLuhan once said of technology that every augmentation is also an amputation. We chose our digitally enhanced world. We did not realize ... See more