• A video (with music) about running.
“I felt like a transcendentalist, an illusionist, or a magician. Something that has to do with magic. I feel it’s my field to create magic in sound. Magic in the sense of transcendence of this ordinary life into another realm. An awakening, you know. To use music to try to awaken ourselves.”
“Rather than seeing wisdom as a distinct human aspiration, requiring its own calisthenics and cultivation, there persists a strange belief that intelligence and knowledge alone will lead, through some secret orthogenesis, to moral clarity. This assumption was, in fact, foundational to the Information Age. In the late Eighties, systems theorists and information scientists developed something called the DIKW pyramid, the data-information-knowledge-wisdom hierarchy. The theory posits a kind of refining process, or Platonic ladder: information is the value we extract from data, knowledge is the value we extract from information, and wisdom is the value we extract from knowledge. Wisdom was admittedly the most wishful and least rigorously defined rung of the pyramid, but the theory remains an artifact of the culture we inhabit, which is built on the promise that amassing and filtering vast storehouses of data will lead, deterministically, toward some ill-defined good. It’s a premise that discounts the messy, nonlinear way that wisdom is acquired in the kiln of real-world experience—and the fact that values are often forged by the abrasion of emotional pain. When [Mark] Zuckerberg said that challenges teach you ‘what you care about,’ he was speaking of wisdom as a form of relevance detection and value construction. Hardship teaches you the precise weight of the things you love. It’s hard to imagine how this is analogous to the mechanized processing of information.”
“Artificial intelligence, meanwhile, is in many ways a conservative force. It’s trained on, and to some extent trapped within, data from the past. It makes old ideas newly available.”
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