Thomas
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Thomas
Along with other types of pollution, cognitive pollution is becoming an increasingly acute problem.
If we endlessly scroll through social media, watch reels, and pollute our consciousness with other junk, then the ideas we produce will also be junk. Garbadge in, garbadge out.
Yet, if we take a responsible approach to what we let into our inner... See more
If we endlessly scroll through social media, watch reels, and pollute our consciousness with other junk, then the ideas we produce will also be junk. Garbadge in, garbadge out.
Yet, if we take a responsible approach to what we let into our inner... See more
Gleb Shu • Would you like to feel more planetary?
How to Remember Everything You Read
youtube.com3.Content creators/users are digital asset owners. This idea here is critical. As time goes on, users become increasingly empowered with more access to information and therefore better able to control and be in charge of future technology advances.
Medium • The Go-to-Market Strategy Is Dead (Killed by Web 3.0)
everywhere we look as creators today the gravity is just pushing us it's just pushing us toward making for other reasons than why we set out to make things in the first place it's so important to remember to make beautiful things to make things that light you up and to make things that you care about there's a wonderful metaphor that I love um it's
... See moreWe suffer from a kind of mythic deprivation. We don’t just need ‘new stories’ because we are inundated with stories. The point, as Alex Evans has recently argued, is that we need to bring mythos back into our lives
Jonathan Rowson • Imagining a World Beyond Consumerism
A very common trope is to treat LLMs as if they were intelligent agents going out in the world and doing things. That’s just a category mistake. A much better way of thinking about them is as a technology that allows humans to access information from many other humans and use that information to make decisions.
Steven Johnson • Revenge of the Humanities
the Overlord Effect—a Godlike attitude emerging from a feeling that we have mastered the universe and colonized space.