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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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Database: Kali Malone On Acoustic Instruments’ Incalculable Beauty
“I love to combine synthesis and acoustic instruments in my work. There’s an incalculable beauty to an acoustic timbre’s organic quality and the human sensibility’s delicate obscurity. There’s also a component in the process of recording acoustic instruments that demands more commitment and clarity from my part, making the whole thing feel more humbling and… Continue reading
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Fragments
“The most interesting and most elusive questions will be the ones whose answers we must give with every moment of our lives, for their whole duration.”– Agnes Callard, Open Socrates, p. 59 “[Play] “is the crucible of invention and a learning system that mimics the genius of evolution.”– Kelly Clancy, Playing With Reality, p. 10… Continue reading
