“Computer science, she went on, helps us ‘to understand what a generative system is, how it’s possible to have a set of rules — which may be a very, very short, briefly statable set of rules — but which has the potential to generate infinitely many different structures.’”
• A scholar writes about brainstorming with AI.
“The academy evolves slowly—perhaps because the basic equipment of its workers, the brain, hasn’t changed much since we first took up the activity of learning. Our work is to push around those ill-defined things called ‘ideas,’ hoping to reach a clearer understanding of something, anything. Occasionally, those understandings escape into the world and disrupt things.”
“As machines insinuate themselves further into our thinking—taking up more cognitive slack, performing more of the mental heavy lifting—we keep running into the awkward question of how much of what they do is really ours.”
“… the smartphone wants your attention. As much of it as it can get. And then a little more. It does that by bringing the outside world to wherever you are, piercing the intimacy of here and the magic of now by persistently creating anxiety or fear or satisfaction, again and again and again.”
“Choosing to engage with things that want what we want is a powerful choice.”
• “Just Wait Two Minutes and Fifty-Five Seconds”: Turnstile’s Powerful B Sections
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