Ryan Duffy
@duffy
Ryan Duffy
AI is eating the Internet
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technology always finds the next reproducible thing
art always finds the next irreproducible thing
x.coma great prototype is worth 100 meetings.
Very good
Being agnostic about the distant future means being honest: we have to admit the limits of our understanding, approach all planetary challenges with humility, and recognize that advances, setbacks, and failures will all continue to be a part of our evolution and that there can be no assurance of (however defined) ultimate success, no arrival at any
... See moreVaclav Smil • How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going
Good last couple of sentences
Our future must involve repurposing and creating new things from what we already have (instead of 20th century “destroy it all and build something completely different” modernism). Our futurism is not nihilistic like cyberpunk and it avoids steampunk’s potentially quasi-reactionary tendencies: it is about ingenuity, generativity, independence, and ... See more