unLLMable
digging deeper after my Sana talk
unLLMable
AD: Okay, let’s talk about some AI stuff? You write a ton and you think a ton, but it sounds like with neither of those, you find AI all that helpful.
MB: Well, no, because almost everything I write or think about is either too particular for convergence machines like LLMs to have anything to say about it, or I want to know what I think or what the... See more
MB: Well, no, because almost everything I write or think about is either too particular for convergence machines like LLMs to have anything to say about it, or I want to know what I think or what the... See more
Mills Baker • A conversation with Mills Baker, Head of Design at Substack
Not long ago, young people were told: “Learn to code.” That’s not working so well now. The first wave of AI is destroying the workaday tech jobs—perhaps there’s some karma in that.
But it also makes sense. When Dr. Frankenstein makes the monster, he’s usually the first victim.
So forget coding, and develop the real skills that we need now—and they... See more
But it also makes sense. When Dr. Frankenstein makes the monster, he’s usually the first victim.
So forget coding, and develop the real skills that we need now—and they... See more
Ted Gioia
The “machine” is not the problem. The problem is our formation—whether we enter into relationship with these tools as children of God or as anxious, mimetic animals trying to become gods ourselves
Luke Burgis • Spirit and The Cost of Cognition
as the cost of cognition approaches zero, that which is repeatable will be replaceable—and will indeed be replaced—by AI (a favorite saying of Palantir Co-Founder Stephen Cohen), which opens up an aperture for those who truly undertake creative acts . In short, we are going to be forced by the technology to be more creative; we will be impelled to... See more
Spirit and The Cost of Cognition
it’s conviction disguised as calm.
You know it when you see it: the musician whose silence feels like confidence, the designer who can stand next to their work and not need to speak, the creative who wears contradiction well ... intensity without effort. People orbit them because aura feels like truth in a culture built on projection. You can’t... See more
You know it when you see it: the musician whose silence feels like confidence, the designer who can stand next to their work and not need to speak, the creative who wears contradiction well ... intensity without effort. People orbit them because aura feels like truth in a culture built on projection. You can’t... See more
Abram Shaffer • You Have No Motion
There Was Some Essential “Me-Ness” In It
For years, the writer George Saunders tried to write technically perfect stories. “I wrote story after story,” Saunders writes in A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, “and everything I wrote was minimal and strict and efficient and lifeless and humor-free, even though, in real life, I reflexively turned to humor at
... See moreAI handles the ordinary, we bring the extraordinary
We worry so much about AGI taking over, we missed the part where we are turning ourselves into bots... https://t.co/k7TCNItMsl