Daniel Santos
@danielsantos
Brazilian lifelong learner. Curiosity waves surfer. I will probably die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
Daniel Santos
danielsantos.org
Now you can literally set machines to do half your desk-job. “New task, next Tuesday write all-staff email about working smarter not harder plus reminder to not to leave dirty mugs in the sink, send at 8am.”
Every boaster and busybody can now churn out infinite words nobody wants.
Words will become an even-more devalued currency. We’re all going to
... See moreIan Whitworth • The Great Same-Ening
impacts of technology and AI chronicles
A homogeneização do conteúdo provocada pelos LLMs torna o mesmo tipo de conteúdo, sumarizado, disponível a qualquer pessoa. As palavras originais, aquelas que tivemos esforço pra pensar e escrever, podem se tornar moeda sem valor se começarem a se confundir com essas, geradas por sumários automáticos. Como nos diferenciar daquilo que a inteligência artificial gera? Ou será que nós é que somos parecidos com IA?
Of course we all claim to hate complexity, but it’s actually just complexity added by other people that we hate — our own bugbears are always exempted, and for things we understand we quickly become unable to even see there is a potential problem for other people.
Luke Plant • No one actually wants simplicity
Nossa relação com a complexidade: só não gostamos quando é a complexidade adicionada por outras pessoas. Me lembrei da frase de Sartre, “o inferno são os outros”.
One way to view liberty, as George Orwell reminded us, is the right “to do what you like in your spare time.” You should be able to choose your amusements, he wrote, “not have them chosen for you from above.” Letting someone else’s ideas about performance stop you from trying something means relinquishing your freedom.
Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners
.citações .conceitos
George Orwell definiu a liberdade como "o direito de fazer aquilo que gostamos em nosso tempo livre". Devemos então ser capazes de escolher nossas diversões — e não deixar que alguém as escolha por nós. Neste sentido, deixar que o que pensam outras pessoas sobre desempenho nos impedir de tentar, de experimentar algo novo significa renunciar à nossa liberdade.
We evolved to crave sugar because it was a scarce source of energy. But when we learned to produce it on an industrial scale, suddenly our love for sweet things became a liability. The same is now true of data. In an age of information overabundance, our curiosity, which once focused us, now distracts us. And it’s led to an epidemic of intellectual... See more
Gurwinder • The Intellectual Obesity Crisis
The original social network, email, is now into its sixth decade of vigorous life. It ain’t perfect but it is essential, and not in any serious danger.
The single crucial difference between email and all those other networks — maybe the only significant difference — is that nobody owns or controls it. If you have a deployment that can speak the
... See moretbray.org • ongoing by Tim Bray · Why Not Bluesky
In an AI-ruled world, any human ability we neglect will start to shrivel up.
Big Think • Mechanized Minds: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
If your opening can be guessed by your audience, it’s boring!
