Thomas Brett
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Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch” (2019)
“intuitive knowledge exists, silent wisdom exists, instinctive insight exists, and I believe this unarticulated understanding of the world comprises a much larger part of our self than we usually imagine” (42). “No art is free of morals, for the simple reason that all art entails a set of assessments of reality, and they are always… Continue reading
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Database: Ellen Arkbro On Harmony As Moving Clouds
“Somehow the music slowly evolves through harmony in a way that feels like the movement of clouds. When you watch the sky and see clouds slowly passing by, creating new landscapes—the music feels a bit like that.” Ellen Arkbro Continue reading
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Resonant Thoughts: Dwarkesh Patel’s “The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025” (2025)
“To get real creativity, you need to search through spaces of possibilities and find these hidden gems. That’s what creativity is. Current language models don’t really do that. They’re mimicking the data. They’re mimicking all the human ingenuity they’ve seen from all these internet data, which are originally derived from humans” (29). – Shane Legg,… Continue reading
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