I just don't think I can overstate the danger of handing epistemic and heuristic authority over to systems built by people who have repeatedly, doggedly proven that they will a) buy into their own hype and b) refuse to ever question their own biases and hubris.
I also think it does a good job of articulating why I think Apple is still in the pole position: going to be really hard for a non-hardware company to come up with that new paradigm.
It articulates what I think is missing in the Generative AI GUI discussion which is that so many of the interfaces feel like pre-iPhone mobile
I don’t think today’s _Stratechery_ post was particularly novel to any of us (e.g. we’ve been talking about Vision Pro being native gen Ai since its announcement for example) but it’s great framing! stratechery.com/2024/the-gen...
I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Unlocking an LLM's power by asking the right question. Vibes-based emergence. Being in the loop. RAG as shark DNA. Chaotic curiosity. The power of "I wonder..." Pulling an elephant out of the hat.
Which is it?
Ways you can give money legally to the president-elect:
*$1M for a Mar-a-Lago membership — more than double the president's salary
*Buy his crypto token
*Stay at his resorts/Golf
*Trump Bibles
*Assorted knickknacks including digital ones
We are not in the era of presidents selling peanut farms.
The grand traditions of societies storytellers. In retrospect we should have expected a decentralized society to be born from a decentralization of societies storytellers.
Inigo Montoya: You keep saying evolution is "only a theory" I do not think that word means what you think it means."
After 165 years, #Darwin's Theory of Evolution is still misunderstood by the public.
What seems to trip up some people's thinking is the meaning of the word "theory". As in, it's only a theory...
So, let's clear up what this theory is
The "Theory" of Evolution 🏺🧪
www.linkedin.com/pulse/theory...
the surest evidence that TCW doesn’t actually work is that he thinks a 5 mile walk a day and an hour of strength training a day is something most people can do if they make the time.
Ben Affleck has a better intuition about what “AI” currently does and what it will reasonably be able to do than many academics I speak with.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypUR...
a) Ethiopian wolf lapping nectar from a Kniphofia foliosa inflorescence; (b) nectar foraging in a large K. foliosa field of the Web Valley, Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia; (c) deposition of a relatively large pollen load on the wolf's muzzle; (d) female adult (left) and female subadult (right) Ethiopian wolves foraging together for K. foliosa nectar. Picture credits: Adrien Lesaffre.
Super cool research from @wildcru.bsky.social - Ethiopian wolves doing pollination work. Wolfination work.
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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This seems to be such a pervasive attitude, it’s wild. Think it must be an aspect of the righting reflex. www.aspenpsychologyservices.co.uk/blog/the-rig....
"If a factory is torn down, but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory." newsletter.squishy.computer/p/places-to-...
Nature-based solutions are a game-changer: buffering shorelines from storms, shading cities and protecting them from flood, boosting crops with less water and fertilizer, and even improving human health. They're powerful, underused--and the future.
Meet the experts leading this vital work ⬇️
This makes sense, species have never been able to mitigate, they've always ever been able to adapt. Throughout Earth's history, life has persisted through dramatic climate shifts by evolving and adjusting, not by actively controlling the environment.
Seawalls, improved drainage systems, building with resilient materials (e.g. hp concrete), drought resistant crops, modular systems that can adjust to extreme weather events, climate migration facilitation, etc.
It feels like climate change mitigation is a lost cause, humanity must now focus on climate change adaptation.
“Wrap your tool in a game, make it fun to play with, and shield players from the kind of people who enjoy holding others to strict standards of Excellence. Present your creation as an Excellence-Free Zone, a safe space for glorious trainwrecks.” mkremins.github.io/blog/creativ...
Neal Stephenson: the two big problems are
- Carbon
- People can’t agree on what’s real
overcast.fm/+AAhjRr283Wo
Fuck that place
Tools for thought: the first 300,000 years https://subconscious.substack.com/p/tools-for-thought-the-first-300000?sd=pf
Summer of Protocols guest session with Alex Komoroske on Gardening Platforms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_mU4Io2s1w
I’m likely succumbing to this. I’m having a hard time not condensing my world view into a theory of interdependence and evolutionary epistemology.
It’s been amazing to watch with Wilder. The wonder I his eyes. ❤️
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Bluesky give me another invite code so I can dm it to Stewart Brand challenge
With algorithmic choice, you will be able to, on a whim, change your timeline to show nothing mean spirited, or to focus on insightful threads, or to emphasize the main discussions happening in your scene.
This will be both a UX and a human rights win.
Eric Gilliam (who I don't think is here yet) wrote a great piece about how Bell Labs managed research:
https://freaktakes.substack.com/p/how-did-places-like-bell-labs-know
