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Emmie
Cooks don't know why baking soda and baking powder are different, just that the recipe called for one of them.
A chef, on the other hand, understands the actual principles behind the recipes. They know why ingredients interact the way they do, which means they can create new dishes and fix problems... See more
"I want to treat you like a chef, not a cook."
A chef, on the other hand, understands the actual principles behind the recipes. They know why ingredients interact the way they do, which means they can create new dishes and fix problems... See more
The Philosophy of Professional Writing: Brandon Sanderson's Writing Lecture #1 (2025)
Sometimes, when people are recounting my career, they look at when I left academia for BuzzFeed News, in 2014....and when I left BuzzFeed to write full-time at Substack, in 2020....and they ask: how did you get ahead of the curve ? I didn’t have any inside knowledge. And I certainly didn’t make any of those moves without real terror. But when... See more
Just a moment...
“My role as a writer is to state things as clearly as I possibly can, to make them in such a way that they haunt, to state truths and to reinforce the animating notion of my politics — which is that all humanity is equal and is worthy of that.” - Te-Nehisi Coates
A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions.
Julien Crockett • How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
Algorithms, by their very nature, assume and assure that you would like your future to be like your past. — Luke Burgis
Desire is never about the object itself. If it were, once you acquired it, the desire would vanish. Yet, your wardrobe keeps getting stuffier while you still find yourself with nothing to wear. Desire is about what the object seems to promise us: a fuller, richer existence. This is why Marie Kondo’s “spark joy” test is great: it reframes... See more
Sherry Ning • You're Overspending Because You Lack Values
The painful part of loneliness is the realization that most people are ass-kissers and friendship is rare. Likewise, people feel the most alienated when they suddenly sober up to the fact that most of their desires are herd-driven, that most of them are no where close to the truth, if they even have a clear enough sense of what that is that matters... See more
Sherry Ning • You're Overspending Because You Lack Values
I don’t know if people develop such a deep connection to the things they buy these days. Many people have a strong desire to possess the latest thing, and manufacturers and advertisers know this. It is not by accident that merchandise is not created to last. The objects of our desire are constantly changing. And our desires for the objects we
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