Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
For information to truly grow, the universe needs one more trick. This is the ability of matter to process information, or the ability of matter to compute.
Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. Joan Didion
Russell Davies • Do Interesting: Notice. Collect. Share. (Do Books Book 36)
Philosophy
The subscription access business model results in a creator’s dilemma. If their best content is paywalled, how will they demonstrate the value of subscribing to new readers? If their best content is paywalled, subscribers have no way of accurately assessing the quality of a creator’s work.
Luxury Media
news that’s fit to print,” but it delivered a large enough proportion of published topics that, as a practical proposition,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
This is the meaning (or at least one of the meanings) of that famous statement associated with the notoriously difficult French theorist Jacques Derrida: “Il n’y a pas de hors-texte,”or “There is nothing outside the text.” And this fact is especially true for LLMs as there is, quite literally, nothing outside the texts on which they have been train... See more
David J. Gunkel • AI Signals The Death Of The Author | NOEMA
In short, a thing is either bad or good in its original aims and functions.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
It is often said, rather casually, that truth is dissolving, that we live in the ‘post-truth era’. But truth is one of our central concepts – perhaps our most central concept – and I don’t think we can do without it.