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Society is increasingly cutting the nourishing ties that attach us, and calling it innovation. I worry about how encouraged we are to do things effici
I couldn’t help but come to the conviction, right there on the bus, that one of the most important questions modern man must ask himself is how much t
How could gaining knowledge amount to anything other than discovering what was already there? How could the truth of a statement or a theory be anythi
That we can write the prompt or query is not an emblem of our freedom but of our surrender. We give up on what we think the words mean and let the mac
That is, they understand the purpose of chatbots and generative models to be the ability to force other people to see a particular version of reality.
Among the troubadours, there was a different class of people, called knowms. Thecouncil was told that the knowms had some special skills that may help
information becomes knowledge only through processes of verification and critical analysis.
This is what knowledge decay looks like. Not burning libraries, but a slow, structural dissolution of the connections between claims and their sources
A garden is made up of the following parts: Seeds: the content contributed by gardeners, such as text, photos, video, audio, or other digital media. G
ore often than not, the digital gardens of today are botanic—privately owned online spaces made for visitors to fawn over while a “do not touch” sign
LLMs have three new capabilities that change the nature of search: Intuitive leaps: LLMs can answer poorly written questions with spooky-accurate ans
Unlike vertical search aggregators, boutique search engines feel less like the Yellow Pages and more like texting your friends to ask for a recommenda
Put another way, will humans will always want to do things like scroll Instagram, but perhaps won't ever want to open TurboTax/Docusign/Concur/Foursqu
A futuristic and unrealistic concept interface: the computer waits on the human instead of the human waiting on the computer.
In large part this is because education, like most social systems, is slow to adapt, iterate, and evolve to be relevant for changing times. The glacia
generative AI is but the latest in a line of innovations that draws attention to the flaws of the modern education system, leaving us to question how
The humanities, rightly understood, are the things that technology cannot take away or substitute for. Of course, I don’t mean ‘humanities’ in the way
When I think about editing images, a vast array of options come to mind: contrast, saturation, sharpen, blur, airbrush, clone stamp, etc. Even basic i
Reading is alluring. It has a nameless quality beyond satisfying desires for information and pleasure. Despite more colorful and interactive media, re
all serious intellectual work happens on the page, and we shouldn’t pretend otherwise. If you want to contribute to the world of ideas, if you want to
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The most underrated note taking app is still the photo album. I can instantly recall what I was doing weeks or years ago. A single picture evokes a do
wispr (dictation tool) is amazing and i'm now using it 60%+ of the time when i would've typed before. i'm going to put my referral link below - if you
And I realised that if you ever hear someone explaining things in terms of a long list of caveats, the odds are good that you’re looking at tacit know
Tacit knowledge is knowledge that cannot be captured through words alone.Think about riding a bicycle. Riding a bicycle is impossible to teach through
A democratic cultural politics would be developmentalist — oriented to learning, growth and discovery — rather than presentist. All kinds of resources
Some assume that a fundamental property of the internet is that it is globally connected, but countries, such as Iran and China, who have built their