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
Frank Ocean on not drawing attention to yourself:
“Work hard in silence. Let success be your noise.”
“Work hard in silence. Let success be your noise.”
Shane • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Friedrich Nietzsche once said that our happiness consists of the possession of a non-negotiable truth. Today, we no longer have such non-negotiable truths. Instead, we have an over-abundance of information. I am not sure that the information society is a continuation of the Enlightenment. Maybe we need a new kind of enlightenment. On a new enlighte... See more
Byung-Chul Han • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Discussions about how AI might influence our ability to live the good life and experience personal fulfillment are just beginning to take baby steps. AI ethics has expanded beyond simply figuring out how to use these technologies in moral or valuable ways. Yet, even these emerging conversations often miss the bigger picture, focusing mostly on whet
... See moreShai Tubali • The Mechanized Mind: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
But there’s a deeper, unasked question that lingers in the background, one introduced by the unconventional thinker Jiddu Krishnamurti in the early 1980s: “If the machine can take over everything man can do, and do it still better than us, then what is a human being, what are you?”
Shai Tubali • The Mechanized Mind: AI’s Hidden Impact on Human Thought
When I look at the surge of investment in AI chips right now, I see no reason to doubt that Moore’s Law won’t continue for a very long time. That means more advanced chips, which means more computing power that we can apply to all sorts of uses — [both] AI and all sorts of devices. And that means we’ll be using even more semiconductors because the
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You must become a beginner.
—rainer maria rilke
Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners
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Author Cory Doctorow coined the term "enshittification" to describe the gradual decline of services as they prioritize value extraction over value creation for users, a process he views as an inevitable consequence of platform capitalism.