This is where I save interesting links.
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A pure example of brilliance
To be topical for a moment, and therefore risk being boring, AI could never find the motivation to summon “intelligence” to produce something like this.
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Modernity Amplified
I thought this was an incredible example of how the world of signs and simulacra is impossible to separate from reality. They are on in the same, working on, and overlapping on, one another always.
This has always happened in news and media of course, but the ad reads on podcasts are so “authentic” – of course, now that they are labeled authentic they no longer are – compared to the commercial breaks of cable TV news in the past.
It used to be:
Story about Clinton Impeachment or whatever > “We’ll be right back after these messages” > cuts to commercial on ordered special gold coins > cuts back to news
Now it is:
Impassioned commentary about sudden death of sitting U.S. Senator > blending perfectly into an ad for a tech hiring platform.
Baudrillard would be proud.
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Patriotism in Sport
This tweet says it. I feel infinitely more patriotic than one would reasonable expect to when we have just, sort of, embarrassed ourselves instigated, and seemingly loosing, a war.
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You Are Not Late
A good day to re-read this Kevin Kelly essay from 2014.
I think I believe he’s right. The internal disagreement (cope, perhaps) I felt reading it is that the big things we’re inventing right now, the things exciting everyone and causing $1 trillion IPOs, are created by a few big companies with a ton of capex.
So, the inverse signal to that is probably something like: set your targets lower than $1 trillion but higher than where you are not and move towards it by using the exciting realities available to you to get there.
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Traditional Georgian Dance to Future
Today’s my birthday. 33rd year – the Jesus year – is nigh! I think I’ll live this year with the attitude of this video. It’s simply wonderful.
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Also, there is an infinite amount of content (signs h/t Baudrillard) to be created. Many, many of them of unbelievably imaginative and interesting; such as these Georgians dancing to Future.
Sadly, one needs to be incredibly skilled to ignore, or better yet to never see, the 99% that is a waste.
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The year is 2028
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Is AI Going to Destroy Our Lives or Not?
https://substack.com/home/post/p-199200508
Great post on what is materializing and what is not, and maybe how it’s a particularly challenging time to be 18-25!
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AI disproves an Erdos problem
A claim from OpenAI about this being the first time “that a prominent open problem, central to a subfield of mathematics, has been solved autonomously by AI.”
And here’s a Marginal Revolution post with some outside commentary.
My understanding is that this is: 1. a big deal and 2. a great setup for the AI to have solved because Erdos already had a solution that the AI disproved, which probably could have been disproved by a human mathematician if they’d been sufficiently interested in exploring whether Erods’s solution was in fact correct forsaking other endeavors to do so.
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r/birdwatching