May 30
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It doesn’t matter how 'intelligent' it is — it can’t get to meaning if all it has access to is form. But also: it’s not 'intelligent.' Our only evidence for its 'intelligence' is the apparent coherence of its output. But we’re the ones doing all the meaning making there, as we make sense of it.
"Following the go to school -> go to college -> work hard -> get ahead -> buy a home -> retire-in-comfort path is as foreign and bygone to them as the farm-the-land-with-your-dad-until-he-dies-and-you-inherit-it path is to a Boomer."
"When discussing team organization, I am often asked: 'Why don’t you have the tech lead manage the team?' My response is to hiss like a vampire exposed to holy water. When the follow-up question is: 'Given you want managers on your teams, can the manager still perform code reviews?' I burst into flames."
"If Generative AI has suddenly become so pervasive, isn’t there a secondary effect that immediately increases the scarcity, and thus the value, of uniquely human knowledge, experience, and intuition?"
"It's literally a show about hugging."
"You gotta read the comments! There is gold there — and more good writing." —Adrienne Samuels Gibbs
"Walking through Kyiv every day, I think:
This might not have existed.
Talking to my mom on the phone, I think:
She might not have been here anymore.
No matter how painful this experience is, I think:
Awareness of what we might have lost teaches us to value what we have with all our strength."
"The only thing I’ve read about 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' that seems to be in the same vernacular as the film, bringing along neurodiversity and the IRS into one glorious messy everything bagel of a story." —Terrie Schweitzer, Curation @ Medium
"Lack of team agreement on which people lead, approve, or do the work, inevitably leads to confusion. The issue tends to appear when a project is in full swing..."
"On one occasion, I watched Tina run a one-and-1/2-hour sound check as she made sure everyone got things right. Maybe her ex-husband Ike Turner was a taskmaster, but Tina could be just as tough."
"An arcane but useful argument about 'begging the question' — very much from the grammar police point of view, but fun" —Scott Lamb, Content @ Medium
"Each Memorial Day, I set out Kyle’s photo next to a Corona Extra — his favorite beer. My family and I also host an epic barbecue where we’ll laugh with friends until it hurts. While the day is a painful reminder of the numerous friends I’ve lost in combat, it’s also a beautiful reminder to continue to live."
"What came up several times, was the need for regulation. Both sides of the conversation seemed to agree on that, but not necessarily in the same way. While the judiciary committee seemed to adopt a nationalistic, patriotic view where the United States of America had to lead and establish the global rules and standard for AI development, Sam had a somewhat different view on it."
"America’s first memorial day became a celebration of Black liberty and patriotism, but racism blocked an opportunity for the nation to commemorate."
"I think some users legitimately ask the question — if AI can do this, what makes me unique? What makes me valuable?"
"Part of why we get so nostalgic about movies from the past isn’t just our associations with our imagination-rich childhoods and movie-going experiences of yore. 80s and 90s movies in particular, when the mid-budget movie really peaked, were really a time that filmmakers were allowed to GET WEIRD."
"This winter, it rained in California.
The downpour temporarily reversed a decade of devastating drought.
The result: a superbloom..."
"Brand marketing needs to be brave. Great brands don’t sell their category; they invent their own category."
"The march of the history of print technology led generally in the direction of improvement in legibility. Design borne of experience and improvements in machining meant that letter-forms got crisper and crisper each century onwards from Gutenberg."
"The most innovative products often feel familiar. And quiet frankly sometimes boring. That’s no accident..."
