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... See moreOnce I thought that [writing this book] would be impossible. It was a skyscraper, massive and complete and unbearably far off. It taunted me from the horizon. But do we ever look at such buildings and assume they sprung up overnight? No. We’ve seen the traffic congestion that attends them. The skeleton of beams and girders. The swarm of builders
Critique of corporate-shaped AI and newspaper prose, advocating a return to exploratory, Victorian-style, author-present sentences
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So, you know, AI didn't have to be what it is today. We could have built it to have doubt, to be exploratory, to have spiritual questions. But instead, we build it according to the corporate model, scaling, efficacy, standardization, homogenization, total consumption, colonization of ideas and material. And we think that's just naturally good.
So
... See moreArtistic identity, the difficulty of staying true to yourself while allowing evolution, reinvention, and avoiding self-made prisons.
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It's funny, I think there are two steps or two levels to it. Being you is one of the hardest things ever. But then I find there's something that people often don't speak about enough and that is being comfortable allowing you to change is the second hardest thing.
Being comfortable allowing you to change so so like when you're an artist when you're
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