reading, watching & listening to

a really well done ELI5 explainer on AI training models. read this closely and you’ll learn a lot about how the incentives of the commercial web impact the quality of the training data.

Taste is not merely superficial preferences but a fundamental human experience linked to moral judgment and self-discovery.

The internet lacks the patience for difficulty and comprehension, resulting in a poor version of culture compared to what existed before.

Many people desire alternatives to the current internet and are frustrated with the lack of human curation.

haven’t been into a podcast this much since the Serial days. the story behind Keiko, the whale in Free Willy.