This 50-year-old paper by Thomas Nagel on what it’s like to be a bat is for some reason making the rounds recently. Time to read it.
AI and creativity, an interview with Kevin Donnellan
Kevin Donnellan from Explainable was kind enough to interview me with some very interesting questions. Here’s the full interview: First off, The Infinite Conversation. What first sparked the idea, why Herzog and Žižek? And could you talk through how practically you set it up? I wrote extensively about how the idea came about in this article. …
Encroaching Doom pt. 1
Encroaching Doom pt. 2
resist nostalgia
embrace deja-vu
“Take a deep breath and work on this problem step-by-step.”
It’s a Cambrian explosion out there.
In LA, bilingual = English, Spanish.
In LLMs, bilingual = English, Chinese
Extracted from https://sonarcalling.com/en/
Nice feature, but not enough attention to the rights of digital entities. It’s always “humans here, humans there”. Here’s the beef: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13600834.2023.2196827
This article about mocked-up texts Apple uses to show new messaging features made me think of when at my ex-startup we had to come up with fake chats for marketing purposes. I guess they felt more real than Apple’s hyper-cleaned-up convos.
