Will
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Gardeners’ world: a short history of domestication and nurturance
Pier Vittorio Aureliarchitectural-review.com
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
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The Digital Mycelium: My Synergistic Content Creation Ecosystem
Tijn Tjoelkertijntjoelker.substack.com
AI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
See Franklin Foer’s critique of this perspective in World Without Mind. Silicon Valley is chasing a metaphysical utopia of total unification, at the cost of privacy, autonomy, liberty etc.
So here they are, my personal rules for blogging.
- Three posts a week, more or less.
- One idea per post. If I find myself launching into another section, cut and paste the extra into a separate draft post, and tie off the original one with the word “Anyway.” Then publish.
- No hedging, no nuance. If I’m getting in a twist about a sentence, take it out.
- Gi