Join 📚 J'S Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what J's read, .
All my mania for culture, for ‘really good’ things, for knowing about jazz recordings and red wine and Danish furniture, even about Keats and Shakespeare and James Baldwin, what if it’s all a form of vanity, or even worse, a little bandage over the initial wound of my origins? I have put between myself and my parents such a gulf of sophistication that it’s impossible for them to touch me now or to reach me at all. And I look back across that gulf, not with a sense of guilt or loss, but with relief and satisfaction. Am I better than they are? Certainly not, although maybe luckier.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
Thus, what emerges is a more dynamic picture of how our reliance on generative AI can mean that these technologies can lead our cognitive processes awry, not just furnish us with incorrect information, and the term 'hallucination' is used to refer to the distorted cognitive process that arises out of the human-AI interaction, not merely the AI-generated output.
Hipsterism and recency bias will help us here. Referencing obscure concepts, friends who are real but not famous, niche interests, and recent events all make you plausibly more human.
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
Maggie Appleton
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise