Nicola
@nicola
Tech, notetaking, PKM, photography, writing. Farm hand. Part time shepherd. Director (not for profit). Freelancer.
Nicola
nicolafisher.com
beginnings always hide themselves in ends
We’re programmed to want to feel as if our existence is important, even essential. For millions of years, it likely would have been. But in the modern West, how often do we feel indispensable?
So you want to escape the algorithm
open.substack.com
Algorithmic anxiety - the algorithm takes note of everything we click, even the accidental clicks, the clicks on stuff we’re not interested in but want to see how something is discussed. The algorithm sees all even when we don’t want it to.
In the good old days, you had to pursue knowledge. Now knowledge pursues you.
This is why we’re overwhelmed. We used to research topics of interest, now everything is laid on a platter before us.
theres a kind of elder millennial creative online type that still sees this whole internet thing as magical
that remembers when it was damn hard to connect with others over ideas
that doesn't want to push every algorithmic edge because it still seems somewhat sacred, this tech
Paul Millerdx.comThe first step is to understand the fundamental difference between humans and AIs. We are analog, chemical beings, with emotions and feelings. Compared with machines, we think slowly—and we act too fast, failing to consider the long-term consequences of our behavior (which AI can help predict). So we should not compete with AI; we should use it. At... See more
Esther Dyson • Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids
The last remaining option is mal d’archive, the Kang solution: you ease the weight of all this cultural stuff by simply destroying it all. Like nerdery, this impulse has been waiting in the wings for a long time. It is also an emergent property of large stores of information, this drive ‘to burn the archive and to incite amnesia, the thing refuting... See more