Elena
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Elena
Aesthetics is the domain in which we pay attention to attention. Art matters. Taste matters. They are, in the dawn of the AI era, more crucial than ever for understanding and shaping the world. What is this new thing? This play that writes itself? This hallucinating hallucination? This science fiction made real? What do we want from it? And how wil... See more
Frank Lantz • Unpluggers, Deflators etc. pt 3: Why Not Both?
taste and creating a point of view
En contra de la desconexión - necesitamos el gusto para ganar la batalla de la atención
what we're looking for is to find work where our work is unmistakably us, where our work is something we can point to and say, "Given who I am and what I see, I made this. I made this for you. Can you please help me make it better?" And when we can do that, our days are totally different than when we're basically sure that an AI is going
... See moreTim Ferriss • Seth Godin — The Pursuit of Meaning, Choosing Your Attitude, Overcoming Rejection, and More
Some may worry about whether powerful new neural-network models for generating text and images will replace workers and artists. But this can be true only if beauty and creativity are measurable by one-dimensional metrics, if art and human endeavors are static forms whose rules and objectives do not change, if we reject the possibility of meaning a... See more
Nameless Feeling
Let me answer your implicit complaint: “The Turing Test will be eventually passed.” That’s right (in some settings, Turing’s original prediction has been already achieved), but the truth is that any human relationship — even digital ones, even those not especially intimate like the ones between writers and readers (I love you, though) — requires mu... See more