Paul Sturrock

interiority, the capacity to sit with experience long enough for it to mean something. It doesn’t happen at the screen. It happens in the pause, the walk, the moment when you stop processing and simply exist somewhere.

The nephew knew something the algorithm will never know: that grounding is not a metaphor.

The turtle can’t argue its way out of the spin.

What Dick’s reversal suggests, and what I find genuinely useful here, is this: the way through is not better information about AI. It is better information about yourself.

If you understand why you oscillate, you stop mistaking the oscillation for a malfunction. You recognize it as the honest response... See more

But range without friction isn’t range. It’s spinning. The generalist advantage only holds if it’s paired with something the environment no longer supplies: the willingness to stop.

The friction between having an idea and seeing it realised used to be enormous. Weeks, months of wrestling something into form. That felt like a limitation - and it was - but it was also where digestion happened. In that gap between conception and creation, you discovered whether you actually cared about the idea or were just infatuated with it.... See more

Something with friction. Something slow and physical that doesn’t multiply every time you touch it.

“I guarantee you that at some point everything is going to go south on you. You're going to say this is it, this is how I end. Now you can either accept that, or you can get to work. That’s all it is. You just begin” (Mark Watney, The Martian

The value of you as a knowledge worker or someone who wants to be a better person is the delta between what an AI can infer and what you carefully curate to be the memory above the AI.

You have to roll your sleeves up and do the work.

Generic context is generated. Correct context is earned.

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” (John Milton)