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The graveyard of data at our fingertips is not really memory as we’ve known it, and it’s not really history — it’s something new and chaotic, something eerily trans-human. The internet is like a time machine that’s bringing back the ghosts of our ancestors. (For the skeptics out there: think of a ghost as the remnants of information patterns that were once produced by a living person). And these ghosts have a lot of unfinished business (bones to pick, allies to avenge, scores to settle) that make it hard to move forward.
How Digital Media Distorts Our Sense of Time
aaronzlewis.com
There's a difference between expertise and wisdom, between theory and experience, between knowing and *living.*
The Best Response to AI Slop, Infinite Advice, and Online Noise Is From Robin Williams
jayacunzo.com
In your industry, in your life, are you positioning yourself to be an architect of that system? Or are you slowly becoming a dependent node, a biological placeholder, just waiting for the network to tell you what to do next?
An Interesting Experiment With LLMs
jjn1
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