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  • I learned a really valuable lesson in first grade. My friend Daniele had a really nice belt-buckle, but he was wearing it upside-down. I was like: Daniele, why is your belt-buckle upside-down? And he was like: so when I look down, I can turn it up and look at it.

    Daniele was a pretty wise kid.

  • I personally agree. But if I pay for the cheapest option ahead of time, it hits different than a loved one deciding on the cheapest option for me, especially if they are grieving and a salesperson is offering them a range of options. Also, some people just want a big funeral for their own emotional reasons I dunno.

  • “discrete AI” (probably has a few other names)

    • symbolic AI
    • traditional AI
    • GOFAI (good old fashioned) AI

    Kinda sounds like you're talking about Explainable AI too. Very interesting set of fields, but I'm pretty sure they're all having funding problems too.

  • Interesting article. I wonder if just deleting this was the right move tho. Maybe they could have stored it away somewhere and ignored it indefinitely.

    PKM systems promise coherence, but they often deliver a kind of abstracted confusion. The more I wrote into my vault, the less I felt. A quote would spark an insight, I’d clip it, tag it, link it - and move on. But the insight was never lived. It was stored. Like food vacuum-sealed and never eaten, while any nutritional value slips away.

    I'm not really familiar with these tools, but it seems like they're not being used as the type of constraint that enables exploration and creative expression. Dunno if that's a fundamental characteristic of the tool.

    In trying to remember everything, I outsourced the act of reflection. I didn’t revisit ideas. I didn’t interrogate them

    One of the most useful insights I came across in the digital humanities was that meaningful language use was performative, as well as subjective and situated.

    The more my system grew, the more I deferred the work of thought to some future self who would sort, tag, distill, and extract the gold.

    Reminds me a bit of Casaubon in Middlemarch.

    Nietzsche burned early drafts. Michelangelo destroyed sketches. Leonardo left thousands of pages unfinished. The act of deletion is not a failure of recordkeeping. It is a reassertion of agency.

    There's this approach to creativity where you force yourself to do a first draft (even if it sucks), to make sure your brain knows what you want it to produce. Then you get rid of the first draft, take a little bit of time off so your brain can work on the problem "in the background", and then start working on the real draft.

  • great (and brief) article.

    there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do"

    lel we have a lot to learn from those early systems theorists / cyberneticians.

  • no one has cared since record executives have been generating AI generated tier music by hand.

    Reminds me of this NYT video about how a pop song is made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaAv5AiBRgY

    At the beginning, a musician at a keyboard composes the basic tune. Then a whole series of MFers overproduce it to hell. At the end, the original musician happens to meet the singer who did the human part of the final rendering and is the "star" who everybody watches perform. In a better day, the original musician would be the star, but in this process they are insignificant.

  • I'm pretty sure the article is at least mildly ironic. I don't think he literally believes that "nobody cares if music is real any more." Towards the end he talks about how AI music is not really art, and it lulls you into oblivion. The writer's a legit scholar with an academic interest in video games, btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Bogost

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