Elena
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Elena
“Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.”
- Brian Eno
@dwarkesh_sp I think this comes down to a version of agency. An LLM doesn't sit around and "ponders" things.
Would Newton have made his discoveries if his only mode of interaction was reacting to questions from the people around him?
Cortex Futurax.com
“I found a piece you wrote in the footnote of a book that I admire.” In other words, it took effort for us to find each other. And much like an inefficient light bulb gives off heat, folk search algorithms have the byproduct of context.
In the end, maybe that’s the only definition of authenticity that doesn’t fall apart under close inspection: not a... See more
In the end, maybe that’s the only definition of authenticity that doesn’t fall apart under close inspection: not a... See more
Elan Ullendorff • Folk search engines
Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit – all these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided.... See more
It’s the sound of failure: so much of modern art is the sound of things going out of
Brian Eno • The sound of failure
Until now, skills have been a major differentiator for humanity. However, in the age of AI, taste will become more important than skills as much of skill-based work and productivity is offloaded to compute. Taste seems more scarce these days, and increasingly differentiating in the age of AI. This assertion makes me think about the development of... See more
Scott Belsky • The Era of Abstraction & New Creative Tensions
focus is not just a matter of the eyes but of the whole body and mind, of our entire being becoming more present and attuned to the world around us.
— “Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees” by Lawrence Weschler (about the artist Robert Irwin)
Reggie James • Ask The Same Question
I wanted an audience, but I also knew that having the wrong audience would be worse than having no audience, because they'd constrain me with their expectations, forcing me to focus on one tiny niche of my worldview at the expense of everything else, until I became a parody of myself.
It was clear to me that the only way to resist becoming what... See more
It was clear to me that the only way to resist becoming what... See more
Gurwinder • The Perils of Audience Capture
Por qué creo en crear una “fortaleza” alrededor de tu personalidad, tu perspectiva y tus ideas vs. elegir un nicho que te constriña y te convierta en cautivo del mismo.