Terralynn Forsyth
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Terralynn Forsyth
AI doesn’t seek truth, people do
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An AI system is not “truth-seeking” because it serves us an answer, whether the response is correct or not. The search for truth is personal and provisional, a negotiation that each of us performs ourselves. But it’s also a fundamentally social process, one that requires institutional arrangements that facilitate productive disagreement. As Mill’s
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How can I maintain my creativity, optimism, intellectual vitality, and sense of agency in the face of the stress that comes from building a company and the endless forces luring towards conformity?
We start raw, then our hearts and minds get boiled by constraints, pressure, feedback, and challenges. How do we keep our head up and maintain our creat... See more
We start raw, then our hearts and minds get boiled by constraints, pressure, feedback, and challenges. How do we keep our head up and maintain our creat... See more
sari azout • My Favorite Questions
And since technology is not value neutral, to be a technologist is to be inherently opinionated about how the world ought to be. Each act of creation is a statement about one particular means to an end being the best possible means. As Saffron Huang writes, “[b]ringing something into existence is in fact endorsing that thing itself. As we hurtle al... See more
Rebecca • On being a technologist
The Philosopher-Builder
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Modern software’s humdrum lack of identity has resulted in users craving more interesting, opinionated tools, tools that feel like us — or a better, more interesting, wackier version of us.
As technology advances, software will increasingly be chosen not just for how well it addresses its use case, but how it conveys its personality, similar to how ... See more
As technology advances, software will increasingly be chosen not just for how well it addresses its use case, but how it conveys its personality, similar to how ... See more