AI perspectives

Mathematical algorithms on graphics cards cannot become conscious because they lack a complex biological substrate

The good loop is actually kind of anti-AI in some ways, in that it doesn’t see AI as the solution; it sees it more as a useful provocation.

“We've lost a lot of small, incidental conversations: asking a cashier for help, getting directions from a stranger, chatting with a neighbor”

“It's important to recognise the difference between ai as a whole and generative ai. Ai has been used positively for decades to benefit societies, but generative ai is the one actively going against that, spreading misinformation, being used to exploit people, and so on.”

“A winning strategy is emerging amongst builders: Engage with what AI can do partially and build for when the partial becomes complete.”

“Neither theory, history or the latest data suggests a recession driven by AI job dislocation is likely”

“From electricians to firefighters to açai bowl entrepreneurs, young Americans are pivoting careers based on one fear: AI taking their jobs”

“Work on your own? The bots are coming to ruin your life. Manage employee and constituent safety at a large group of harm-reduction-focused, state-funded addiction recovery clinics? “I use it for everything.”

“I think agentic AI would work much better if people took lessons from organizational theory”

I want you to write out a really rough, terrible draft in your writers’ notebooks,” Ms. Binney told them. “And then I want you to scratch it out and rewrite it.

“a willingness to stand behind words, to mean them, and to accept the consequences of having claimed to have written them.”

A playbook exploring strategies and frameworks for building agentic web experiences

There's a line you don't want to cross where suddenly you're the tool, you're no longer the artist. You're the artist, don't be the tool.

“Viewers have grown suspicious of anything that looks too polished.”

Real humans use (and made) our product! We swear!

The labor that AI takes off our plate is the labor of production — the manual rendering, the duplicating, the templating. What it leaves behind — and intensifies — is the labor of seeing. Of noticing what’s working. Of catching what isn’t.

The use of AI among my peers is really seen as low-status behavior.

The tiktok algorithm doesn't work the way you think it does, or else I wouldn't be able to say this.

“Podcasters who spent the best part of a decade honing their craft and growing audiences are in a curious position: Burnt out or cast aside by fresh demands of the now thriving industry.”

“AI will make everything look the same. We're already seeing it. Most AI-generated images share the same aesthetic. Every template library offers the same layouts.”

“The brands that publish will be found. The brands that do not will be described by someone else, or not described at all.”

How I combined Claude and Obsidian to build a personal knowledge system from scratch, in a single afternoon, with no coding background.

“Hahaha, says the reader. Hahaha … fuck.”

Strategic presentation analyzing AI as the next major platform shift in technology.

“The entire culture of American technology is built around two terms: disruption and, of course, scale. But ethics are constraints on disruption and scale.”