Daniel

@hermittoday Boredom might be the mental equivalent of hunger though

you can just not do things

About 25 years ago it became feasible to have a complete music production studio in a computer. It didn’t make professional mastering engineers unemployed. But MORE music was created due to the enablement. I believe LLMs do a similar thing in many domains today.

If you strip LLMs to their essence, they are simply a much better way of using statistics to aggregate human intelligence and connect everything we’ve all done together - to get more use out of it. Credit to @sariazout for this brilliant realization

What if UFO sightings are to us what laser dots are to cats? Flickers of something playing with us, while we continue to assume we’re alone in the game and on top of the intelligence food chain :)

”Have you ever considered that the more abstract a knowledge domain is, the more limited the knowledge is?” @kasratweets

We are born unready, into a state of urgent needfulness. Maybe the first human tool wasn’t a weapon, but a bag? yalereview.org/article/audrey…

Karmic cycles makes sense to me now. Being a middle-aged parent, I can trace the lines of them from the here and now, back into my own ancestry.

@kasratweets Yes! I’ve written about this in a tangential post: linkedin.com/posts/fridgren… Have you read ”Metaphors we live by”? If not highly recommended.

I am obsessed with hofstadter's "surfaces and essences." it's a 500 page book on the nature of thought. he basically gives you a very long list of examples demonstrating that all thought is fundamentally driven by analogy. at first I was skeptical but

Apple still builds upon the Unix software stack which have a strong multi-user focus—yet its almost impossible to share an iPad between two different users. It’s even easier to share AirPods.

I am a strange loop of intermixed multitudes constantly mutating, defining my world and also being defined by it. ”Familiarity with our own complexity is a step toward the generosity of giving others permission to be complex too.” - Nora Bateson

Wow. Goosebumps on my arms. Brilliant use of shepard tone. Thank you Ryan ❤️ @RyanTeagueMusic

Rodents and lizards eats these butterflies. They are in turn the prey of owls. How did the imagery of the eyes of the owl get into the wings of the butterflies? ”Blind evolution?”. Patterns works in for us mysterious ways..

A huge limitation of language is that it traps us in thinking in fixed categories and static definitions. It obscures the fluid, dynamic, relational nature of reality. What are ways to become better at thinking beyond words?

The greatest threat to our world is the armoring of the rational mind against intuition, the unconscious, the unknown

Inspiration from: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

What if the design of supply chains would be inspired by multipartite viruses? Instead of a chain with fragile dependencies, we could have distributed actors with swarming behavior. Each actor needs to be self-governed and able to respond and adapt quickly to changing conditions.

Poetry is an awesome technology. It is one of the few things that allows us to communicate that which resides beyond words. The brilliance of poetry resides in the resonance it is able to make in the Other - through what it conveys between the words.

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Brutalist design is so profoundly depressing and non-human. I have a theory about why: It’s an expression of power that grows out of fear. It says: ”Look, I am powerful! I can domesticate and control nature! Fear me”