Shachaf Rodberg

Terrence McKenna once said, “Stop consuming images and start producing them,” which is kind of an interesting take on what I have been doing.

While we conventionally think of ourselves as “using the internet,” we are simultaneously and undeniably a part of it . We are both creators and the created. We are man and machine, becoming a new kind of man-machine being, beyond any one person’s conceptualization.

"Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They [care only] for themselves. Ignoring this fact is a costly mistake in advertising”

BTW Hopkins wrote that 1922.

I try to build up surprise, because surprise and insight and entertainment are all very tightly correlated. Surprise is also the fundamental axiom of Claude Shannon’s information theory. The more surprise in a message, the more information it contains.

Now on to the good news. Your no thanks doesn’t need to be an absolute, total, eternal no . We can use typewriters to write letters and write a poem on our phone at the bus stop. We can say no thanks to AI phone bots but still use ChatGPT to help us understand Aristotle’s Metaphysics in the original. We can be both critical and appreciative of new... See more