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This is utterly fascinating. We’ve known code written by AI is harder to untangle. It appears this is the case with writing as well. Tricia is an edi

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Gatecrashing My Childhood Comics: What 8 AI Creations Reveal About Human Taste

AI doesn’t do it end-to-end. It does it middle-to-middle. The new bottlenecks are prompting and verifying.

the new bottleneck is no longer doing the work it’s reviewing the work

What’s my added value? Not much. I just happen to have access to context that it doesn’t. I’m a gatekeeper, and that won’t last.

Now we go to the gym or for long strolls or hikes just for the fun of it. We didn’t lose our ability to walk; we gained the freedom to choose when and

编程这项工作非常适合 AI 增强或替代,原因如下:1/ 编码本质上要求工程师将问题分解成更小、更易管理的任务;2/ 有大量现有的训练数据;3/ 任务需要判断力和基于规则的工作相结合;4/ 解决方案利用可组合的模块(比如开源软件库等);5/ 在某些情况下,工作成果可以通过经验测试其正确性。这意味着可靠

AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence. Emphasizing the collectivity (som

…a creator is someone with a distribution mind. They're thinking about what do I make that's going to reach the most amount of people? They're an inde

The shift described represents a fundamental change in the "architecture" of how creative value is captured, moving from individual products to entire

Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra that “Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können” – “One must still have

Claude’s outputs are the product of a form of mimicry, rather than as a report of genuine internal states.Consciousness is about internal states; the

I say please and thank you, not because I believe it matters to him, but because it matters to me. If I am going to use natural English to communicate

Not giving a fuck if you look cringe is a superpower for the great online game. Like Peter Parker getting bit by a spider, I had my superhero moment w

When you’re willing to look cringe, a whole world of opportunity opens up. You realize you can’t please everyone so you stop trying. You just focus on

The better AI gets at doing our work for us, the more we outsource our thinking to it. Thus, as we make machines more humanlike, they make us more mac

“Instead of machines trying to convince humans that they are people, machines now hope to convince humans that they are really computers. CAPTCHAs [.

If you’re posting on social media or any platform with an algorithm, the real question is: do you work for the algorithm or are you committed to worki

When you say that the status quo draws people toward more individuated, personality-driven work, what do you think is causing that, both culturally an

to be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

iUnlock doors with it.iMeet lovers through it.iOrder food with it.iSummon cars with it.iEven meditate with it.Apple designed the iPhone too well.So we

I think that talking about agency and introspection separately is misguided. People who emphasize how to get things done, and move faster, and reach h

When I try to make the best thing, it feels different. It feels like I’m trying to prove something to someone instead of trying to discover something

Fuller is something of a philosopher of digital design; his podcast “Scratching the Surface” canvasses experts in the field. In the past decade, he ar

There’s this funny balance where some writers get way too purist about it and they’re like, I don’t want to have to package my work up for the masses

Let me assure you, as someone who has been publishing books for sixteen years, that no matter how much you think you’ve talked about your book, no mat

Spoiler Alert: no one f**king wants a “Lavender Latte”. I don’t care how much alliteration there is in the name. Can we focus on getting a consistent

i am like the opposite of artificial intelligence. genuine stupidity.

Unreasonably effective writing advice: "What are you trying to say here? Okay, just write that."

one of the hardest habits i've had to un-learn as a writer is the desire to head off any counterargument i can see coming -- it's hard for me to write

"Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They [care only] for themselves. Ignori

The “near me” version of queries became the dominant version about 10 years ago. So the affordances of the search results changes our behavior. It’s

Critical Atlas of Internet

Authenticity simply can’t survive this environment of constant performance – we become alienated from our own actions when every moment is filtered th

hi, thanks for stopping by. My name is Ali and I'm a filmmaker. I love to put together stories of all kinds that just make you feel something in one w

ChatGPT allows you to automate tedious thoughts. Whenever you are mildly curious about a question or annoyed at not having a piece of information, you

When pursuing a 1-of-1 vision, you aren’t going to be the most popular or celebrated person. You’re going to be an oddity that the most in-the-know pe

It’s possible for other projects to be sexier, more lucrative, and more attention getting, however their purposes are less unique than yours.

I appreciated Nvidia’s founder talking the other week about what it means to work in a zero billion dollar industry. It means really believing in some

An idea cannot truly go mainstream until it’s wrapped in a “meme” that compels people to recognize, understand, share, and invest time in it.

Memes may dominate how we communicate online, but in the last few years, their rapid spread has also necessitated the birth of a parallel, shadow ecos

Media and Machines.

No one talks about the way in which the world, in all of its bewildering capability, is, at every second, offering some detail that might lead to a ne

“to hone sensory receptivity to the marvelous specificity of things.” I would argue that this is another way of talking about learning to pay a certai

hello, i'm v good at asking questions. it's one of the things i get most complimented on i think what i do is simple & easy for anyone to do: 1.

Intelligence is a form of friendship with the world. It can’t be cultivated out of fear of it.

Don’t try to be better than your competitors, try to be different. There is always going to be someone smarter than you, but there may not be someone

When meeting someone new, try to find out what formative experience occurred in their lives before they were 17. It is my belief that some important e

We all know we’re overstimulated and want to stop, but we can’t. We use app blockers, throw our phones away, and build rigid routines. But none of it

humans don’t have fixed identities. we’re constantly testing. trying different versions of ourselves. seeing what gets rewarded. adjusting based on fe

I feel like there’s something so soulless about our culture—something deeply, deeply missing in people’s experience of life, a kind of superficiality.

the moralists ask us how we can justify our love of reading, we can make use of some such excuse as this. But if we are honest, we know that no such e

The hot new theory online is that reading is kaput, and therefore civilization is too. The rise of hyper-addictive digital technologies has shattered

TED’S 24 RULES FOR READINGReading shouldn’t be a goal—instead it ought to be cultivated as a habit.It should be a relaxing and enjoyable habit, someth

Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will

we’ve always been influenced in what we find beautiful or valuable or important, of course, but what’s new is the speed at which one is inundated with

You can use algorithms to surface new things. But algorithms are not nearly as good as human curators yet. Whatever pattern matching is going on insid

humanity will soon begin to publish inventions dubbed "thunks," which he describes as "nuggets of thought that can interact with the 'reader' in a dyn

GOAT: Who is the greatest economist of all time and why does it matter?

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This brings me to my core thesis: The inconvenience and inferior data transfer speeds of conversational interfaces make them an unlikely replacement f

personality is the moat gemini is technically great but feels like talking to a corporate helpdesk that’s read too many hr manuals. no edge, no warmth

Can we replicate https://github.com/olton/metroui Metro UI with AI

The Operating Manual for Your Nervous System

What if Anxiety Is a Habit, Not a Disorder?

Be careful not to discover a career before you’ve discovered yourself.

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful. ― E.F. Schumacher, Small Is B

First, I think great web design requires discipline. And that’s really the hardest thing about making a website. In this field there are a thousand ye