Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
Daniel Wentsch
@klickreflex
Freelance designer and web dev from Freiburg, Germany.
so much AI stuff focuses on giving you results without letting you participate in the process, as if the thinking/digging/discovery is purely an obstacle and not the whole point at times
Well, the Buddha taught that this misconception is actually the primary cause of our suffering, and keeps us from finding lasting contentment. He laid out a path to overcome this ignorance, and see ourselves and the world more and more for what they actually are.
Seeing things more clearly brings about “insight”, and these insights change us.
They
... See moreWe live in an interesting time because the AI dictation has got to a level now that it's kind of a solved problem.
And if you want to just sit there and talk for 15 minutes, sometimes you're going to surface ideas that you wouldn't with pen and paper because we often edit ourselves when we write out longhand. And that is absolutely valuable.
But
... See moreThis rant via Shalom Auslander
I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by the pier, and as I was taking my son to school and waiting at a traffic light, a homeless man in a mad fury began circling my car, shouting and spitting, and it felt like forever before the light
... See moreA good rant, on how nothing makes sense, by Shalom Auslander. It reminds me of On Bullshit’s opening line: One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share.
And yet, you know, the analog is slower, which is people say, well, it's slower.
And I'm like, yeah, it's slower.
You know I have this long essay written I want to publish at some point about optimizing for speed I think one of the detriments of modern computer era and technology is that we start to think that speed is the best metric for everything
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