Robin Good

This is what knowledge decay looks like. Not burning libraries, but a slow, structural dissolution of the connections between claims and their sources, between knowledge and the authority that produced it. LLMs accelerate this process to an unprecedented scale.

- Ability to change yourself & your mind

- Not taking things personally

- Not needing to prove you're right

- Careful selection of all relationships

- Staying calm

- Being alone without being lonely

- Being ok with being uncomfortable

- Thinking for oneself

The conversation around taste tends to focus on what it takes to develop it, but not what it takes to use it and unlock its potential, which is confidence .

Having and developing taste is one thing, but remaining connected to our taste is another. In order to take advantage of our taste, we have to be able to access its insights and guidance, which... See more

AI can generate a thousand articles while I drink my morning coffee. But it can't tell me which ones matter. It can't feel the resonance of a perfect sentence or know why a particular image stops me in my tracks.

That's what I do now. I collect resonance. Not information - we're drowning in that - but the stuff that makes my soul hum at a different

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Seek people who love and give generously, who have the strength to suffer without causing damage. (Only strong people are safe people, the measure of strength being not the absence of vulnerability — and “weakness” is just a judgment term for vulnerability — but the ability to carry one’s vulnerability with such self-awareness and valor so as not... See more

There is an extreme kind of philosophical skepticism – dating back to the ancient Greek Pyrrho – that there is no such thing as “truth” or the answer. We have only interpretations.

There is something deeply offensive in knowing not only that hundreds of thousands of my words have vanished, but that some LLM is probably crawling through the tattered fragments to churn out mockeries of the very real sources, research, and energy that once backed those words. They’ll be vomited back on the shores of my browser, squirming and... See more

Guardians of culture.

Stewards of meaning.

That's what curators are.