will abramson
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will abramson
We lose the ability to choose, direct, the motivation is outside of us (extrinsic). we become “the best” not the best version of ourselves. We let the game define us.
What is lost when a process becomes automated? When we curb the act of figuring, that is to say, ‘creating linkages, adjacencies, and intersections’3? When we stop grappling with an idea, teasing out its knots, allowing its unravelling to lead us somewhere unexpected? It’s not that we don’t get the need for a long-term vision in some form. But more... See more
Serious Play
Sure, AI can ‘do’ writing. But memoir? Not so much | Aeon Essays
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🐙 Mega-thread of freshly baked hot takes on AGI, multi-agent systems, models/scaffolds, economics, labour, meaning, and the future.
1. Existing models will continue improving and getting better. And they will continue to be trained while accounting for all sorts of things like cost, efficiency, steerability,... See more
In an increasingly automated world, we’re in danger of losing this intertwined relationship between thinking and making: two different but symbiotic processes, each with rich inherent value. Replacing emergent, tactile, imagination-led processes—these forms of serious play—with AI prompts strips away something magical. It removes a reciprocal... See more