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In March 2023, I asked whether it was more concerning when AI sounded like us or when we sounded like AI. For me, the question still stands.
#256: The "world" according to AI pushers
Anne Lamott writes in Crooked Little Heart: A Novel, “expectations are resentments waiting to happen.” Elsewhere, she said, “expectations are premeditated resentments.” And: “Expectations are resentments under construction: set the expectations bar as low as you can!”
SIX at 6: Lowering The Stakes, Bad Poetry, Coal Miners, What’s The Big Deal?, The Down-Up Theory, and Premeditated Resentments - Billy Oppenheimer
In high school, Judd Apatow began his lifelong practice of interviewing his comedy and writing heroes. From interviewing hundreds of legendary artists, he said, he developed a very simple theory of creativity. He calls it the Down-Up theory: “get the ideas DOWN then fix them UP.” “Give yourself permission to suck. Anything goes. Just get something... See more
SIX at 6: Lowering The Stakes, Bad Poetry, Coal Miners, What’s The Big Deal?, The Down-Up Theory, and Premeditated Resentments - Billy Oppenheimer
My AI Adoption Journey
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-Marguerite Zorach
In 2013, the Chicago Sun-Times fired all 28 of its staff photographers. Every single one. Including John H. White, who had won a Pulitzer Prize.
The plan was simple. Reporters would shoot their own photos using iPhones. The technology had gotten good enough. The cameras were in everyone’s pockets. Why pay 28 salaries for something the existing staff
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