Molly Simpson
@spagmol
thinker, feeler, third-wheeler
collecting dots here, connecting them there ￬
Molly Simpson
spagmol.substack.com
“the spirit of the fool.” He argued that when you start learning anything new it will make you “feel clumsy, that you’ll take literal or figurative pratfalls. There’s no way around it.”
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
When you repeatedly prompt an LLM over a long timescale — whether you’re discussing your delusional beliefs, or pursuing a romantic fantasy (“AI girl/boyfriends”) — you are filling it up with your communicative intent. The work that comes out the other side — the transformation of your prompts into a response — is a mirror that you’re holding up to... See more
AI psychosis and the warped mirror
So the point of my keeping a notebook has never been, nor is it now, to have an accurate factual record of what I have been doing or thinking. That would be a different impulse entirely, an instinct for reality which I sometimes envy but do not possess.
Joan Didion • On Keeping A Notebook
Our entire picture of the world has to be altered even though the mass changes only by a little bit. This is a very peculiar thing about the philosophy, or the ideas, behind the laws. Even a very small effect sometimes requires profound changes in our ideas.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol. I Ch. 1: Atoms in Motion
All platforms make multiple products, but not all platforms do it in the same way.
On biotech platform strategy
Pérez Art Museum Miami • PAMM
pamm.org
You write the first draft for yourself, but you write the second draft for a stranger.