reading, watching & listening to
sharing a selection of things I'm reading and find thought provoking
reading, watching & listening to
Value capture occurs when an agent’s values are rich and subtle; they enter a social environment that presents simplified — typically quantified — versions of those val-ues; and those simplified articulations come to dominate their practical reasoning. Examples include becoming motivated by FitBit’s step counts, Twitter Likes and Re-tweets,... See more
PhilPapers
excellent work by C. Thi Nguyen
AI will enable people with imagination more than it will enable people with money
Building Learning and Fun into Your Applications
The content explores integrating learning and fun from game design principles into applications, emphasizing interaction design, user engagement, and creating effective, enjoyable user experiences.
lostgarden.comA game must teach you new skills only when appropriate, get you to care about a goal, and of course help you have fun. Why are games so good at this when software is so poor at it? This talk teaches you how to build fun software applications.
it's my party and i'll use AI if i want to
wildbarestepf.substack.com
Jerry Seinfeld saying Jerry Seinfeld things is amazing
What do you think has replaced film?
Depression? Malaise? I would say confusion.Disorientation replaced the movie business. Everyone I know in show business, every day, is going, What’s going on? How do you do this? What are we supposed to do now?
Do you feel the same way, or are you grandfathered in?
I’ve done enough stuff that I have my own thing, which is more valuable than it’s ever been. Stand-up is like you’re a cabinetmaker, and everybody needs a guy who’s good with wood.
Break down that metaphor for me.
There’s trees everywhere, but to make a nice table, it’s not so easy. So, the metaphor is that if you have good craft and craftsmanship, you’re kind of impervious to the whims of the industry. Audiences are now flocking to stand-up because it’s something you can’t fake. It’s like platform diving. You could say you’re a platform diver, but in two seconds we can see if you are or you aren’t. That’s what people like about stand-up. They can trust it. Everything else is fake.
nuanced piece by Anthropic CEO
The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
amazon.com
Creation becomes consumption
open.substack.com
Most people don’t want a blank canvas, they want a dance, a format, a prompt.