Terralynn Forsyth
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Terralynn Forsyth
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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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
Why We Crave Software With Style Over “Branding”
Everything That Turned Out Well in My Life Followed the Same Design Process
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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... See more
Rebecca • On being a technologist
The Philosopher-Builder
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