šĀ On time for your weekend: a round-up ofĀ this weekās remarkable storiesĀ at the intersection of technology, business, design, and culture. Three reads and three listens; no fluff, just stuff ā”
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely āE.O. Wilson
š Reading
Type 2 Growth:
Evolutionary growth, which includes the expansion of intangibles such as freedom, wisdom, and complexity, doesnāt have similar limits. We can always figure out a way to improve things, even without using more stuff ā especially without using more stuff! There is no limit to betterment. We can keep growing (type 2) indefinitely.
Kevin KellyāThe Technium | 7 minutes
Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI:
The fact that OpenAI was both honestly worried about negative effects, and at the same time didnāt predict theĀ enshittificationĀ of the internet they spearheaded, should make us extremely worried they will continue to miss the negative downstream effects of their increasingly intelligent models. They failed to foresee the floating mounds of clickbait garbage, the synthetic info-trash cities, all to collect clicks and eyeballs
Erik HoelāThe Intrinsic Perspective | 11 minutes
Google had a very bad week:
Red teaming and QA aren't just boxes to be checked, they're integral parts of the product development process. In normal software you can do it after you build something, but here it is how you build something. I am as guilty as anyone at taking the chance at poking fun at Gemini, but the joke is on us in thinking thereās an easy answer.
Rohit KirshnanāStrange Loop Canon | 12 minutes
š§ Listening
Manifesto for a Moral Revolution:
People with poison stories, they tell defeatist stories, they tell cynical stories. They tell stories of, ah, that's never ever going to work. And [the] focus on people networks and empowerment, that's planting a seed that literally just continues to grow, grow and grow, and that's where the patience comes in.
Jacqueline NovogratzāInfinite Loops | 75 minutes
Breaking New Ground:
Google's Gemini was revealed to be like intentionally misleading in some ways. Apple's not going to put themselves in that boat, I don't think they will. Having something as general purpose as a ChatGPT or a Sora, it just leaves you open to so much risk on that front. So I think it's going to be more empowering workflows as opposed to the everything app [ā¦] I don't think that's in their interests and it's too easy to get it wrong.
Daniel JalkutāCore Intuition | 49 minutes
RIP Apple Car, Google's AI Reality Problem, Long Live Consumer Tech
This move really just clarifies that Apple's a personal technology company/ It's a provider of personal technology to enable you to be creative, to communicate, to be entertained, to really carry around the tools for doing all these things [ā¦] I think that the strategy is Cambrian going forward, where you've got all these different tools that you're using. They all interact with each other. They all enable this new spatial computing future.
Dave MorināMore or Less | 62 minutes
š Timeless
1ļøā£ year agoāYou Are Not a Parrot
2ļøā£ years agoāFalse Futurism
3ļøā£ years agoāThe Great Acceleration