Jerome Alexander
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Jerome Alexander
Eyecandy - Visual Technique Library
- A very common trope is to treat LLMs as if they were intelligent agents going out in the world and doing things. That’s just a category mistake. 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. We have been doing this for as long a... See more
from Revenge of the Humanities by Steven Johnson
There's a shift in thinking about LLMs as collective intelligence rather than artificial intelligence
- As John Lasseter likes to say, ‘our films don’t get finished, they just get released.’” – Pete Docter, Pixar (source)
from TWN Issue 15: Embracing a "Fractal Bud" in Knowledge
Not pieces, masterpieces
- In other words, the hard part isn’t writing, or coding, or speaking.
It’s determining what to write, what to code, and what to say.from Vita Benes
At the same time, as I wander the internet, I wonder where the digital gardens are that will connect me to fellow gardeners more deeply. More 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 looms in view. These private gardens are generative for our p
... See morefrom On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
- Kaskie: We are not trying to be everything to everybody. We’re trying to be something to someone.
from The Oral History of Pitchfork, From the Careers It Made to the Bands It Killed by Dan Kois
- Search engines — the window into the web for many people — top their results with pages containing thousands of words of auto-generated nothingness, perfectly optimized for search engine prominence and to pull in money via ads and affiliate links while simultaneously devoid of any useful information.
Social networks have become “the web” for many pe... See more make a space where you feel free to breathe…a space where you can invite others to do the same
from A Necessary Imagination by Morgan Harper Nichols