Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
It is one of the sublime ironies of our current moment that the AI community vastly underestimates what the human mind is capable of and AI critics vastly underestimate what the human mind is capable of alongside machines.
Sari Azout • Umm, I Guess We’re Talking About Taste Again
I will have to remember, ‘I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators.’” (Rosamund and Benjamin Zander)
“What’s the point of having fuck you money if you never say ‘fuck you’?”
Judith Dada • Raising Unfuckwithable Kids in the Age of AI
Went to a presentation where I took notes by hand but afterwards they sent out an AI summary. There was almost no overlap. In other words, little similarity between what I thought was important and AI did.
Makes me think about what gets lost in compression, how the most important ideas resist summary.... See more
Tommy Dixonsubstack.com
Exploring consciousness as felt uncertainty, its plural forms, and the bodily roots of conscious experience and feelings.
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I want to get at another theory of what consciousness is for. I think the language in the book is consciousness is felt uncertainty. Yeah, isn't that beautiful? That is very beautiful, although in practice I find it very unpleasant. But what does that mean?
So the phrase comes from a scientist named Mark Soames who is a neuroscientist and a
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