Salman Ansari
@salmanscribbles
embracing my inner polymath — writing, drawing, coding, playing
Salman Ansari
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Information is little pieces of idea that you have. Your speed lists will probably consist mostly of information.
After you collect a bunch of information, you'll detect patterns and relationships. As you integrate ideas together, it becomes far greater than the sum of the individual pieces- it becomes knowledge .
What is Wisdom? I define it as... See more
After you collect a bunch of information, you'll detect patterns and relationships. As you integrate ideas together, it becomes far greater than the sum of the individual pieces- it becomes knowledge .
What is Wisdom? I define it as... See more
Theory of Notebooks
In his 1947 essay “On Fairy Stories,” J.R.R. Tolkien wrote that a creator should “hope that he is drawing on reality,” to shape the qualities of his world.
Dirt • Dirt: Worldbuilding, Pt. 2
The author noted how GPT-3 could generate poetic text, but ChatGPT has since lost that ability.
We’ve seen a fair bit of degradation in models over time. The biggest factor is that its developers are optimizing for certain use cases (eg friendly professional chat bot). So it’s not just AI, it’s AI + the founder vision that will dictate its impact.
Also: How long will that be the case? When will AI evolve out of its developers influence?
"I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares."
—Saul Bass
Meanwhile, some of the most serious people I know do their serious thing gratis and make their loot somewhere else. My dad, whose photographs sit at the top of every Experimental History post, quit his job at the newspaper and went to work as a postal carrier instead. Why? As he puts it: “I could afford better lenses delivering mail than I could... See more
Adam Mastroianni • Surely You Can Be Serious
While I do enjoy my work in startups, I sometimes think of it as “fundraising” for the creative work I do. The world doesn’t usually fund the things it needs most (art). So sometimes you have to find a way to fund it yourself.
Spiritual awakening is frequently described as a journey to the top of a mountain. We leave our attachments and our worldliness behind and slowly make our way to the top. At the peak we have transcended all pain. The only problem with this metaphor is that we leave all the others behind—our drunken brother, our schizophrenic sister, our tormented
... See morePema Chodron • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
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