Emily Campbell
@emilycampbell
Emily Campbell
You saw music as a platform to do things. Could Live Aid happen today?
I don’t think it’s possible now. Society has changed. The web is an isolating technology. It knows what you are, it drives you, it gives you what it thinks you want, and as you get jaded it gives you more extreme versions of that.
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I don’t think it’s possible now. Society has changed. The web is an isolating technology. It knows what you are, it drives you, it gives you what it thinks you want, and as you get jaded it gives you more extreme versions of that.
Now, music is free and you get the news that you... See more
40 Years After Live Aid, It’s Still Personal for Bob Geldof
The large language models that programmers train to identify faces are black boxes. Even the engineers don’t know how or in what form your face appears to the system. All they know is that AI likes your face to be brightly lit. And that it prefers for you not to smile.
Your Face Tomorrow, by Michael W. Clune
All across our culture, you’ll find people eager to abandon the fundamental task of our lives, fostering and maintaining human connection, so that they can fall deeper into a pit of hedonistic distraction forever.
freddiedeboer.substack.com • You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.
The human financial services activities that AI can’t do
For the longest time, monoculture ruled over us. It’s a fairly new phenomenon for trends to become smaller and more oriented to community or identity. The algorithmic pockets of community and identity (fandom as a personality trait, self-expression as a source of pride). AI an machine learning power both of these forces. It will be fascinating to see how they intersect in the coming years
Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.
Growth for growth’s sake is the ideology of a cancer call - Ed Abbey