Jenna Guarascio
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Jenna Guarascio
You know, so many of us in tech, we tend to see the world through the lens of technological determinism, where we believe the course of history will play out according to what is technologically possible.
But the most exciting breakthroughs won’t come from technology. They’ll come from how these new tools reshape our understanding of ourselves and o... See more
But the most exciting breakthroughs won’t come from technology. They’ll come from how these new tools reshape our understanding of ourselves and o... See more
Said differently, we try to measure what we value.
But we inevitably end up valuing what we measure.
And what can be measured tends to be…the mechanical stuff.
Not only do numbers not capture what matters, they are also extremely open to manipulation.
But we inevitably end up valuing what we measure.
And what can be measured tends to be…the mechanical stuff.
Not only do numbers not capture what matters, they are also extremely open to manipulation.
To shape the inputs—and to evaluate the outputs—you still need expertise. When you prompt an LLM, every word you input shapes what comes next.
Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within.” Ruha Benjamin, Professor, Princeton University
Visions that remain only visions do not survive, but equally, practical ideas that don’t have any supporting superstructure of ideas tend not to thrive because they lack the emotional aura that a thick imagination brings.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible
Thin imagination is vague and partial, whereas thick imagination combines ideas, philosophy, programmes and detailed implementation. Most influential ideas achieve their impact by becoming thick in this sense, as well as through repetition.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Content has become like clay. LLMs can remix it, summarize it, elaborate on it, hallucinate it, combine it with other content, freely transform it between text, audio, image, and back again. It seems we have achieved a kind of information post-scarcity. A regime of radical overproduction. A content singularity. How will this change things?