Category: FIELD NOTES
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Presumptions Of Regularity
Imagine a written page where it was possible that only some words were visible. And the arrangement of those visible words told their own story. Now imagine those words disappeared while yet others appeared. Another story entirely. What fun would that be? And now imagine four separate stories made from the same page of words…
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LEARNED HELPLESSNESS & CONTENT V INFO
The takeaway: it is possible to decide nothing can be done because you can’t figure it out. And the content that could be info, or not, the content that looks and hits like info, but isn’t, is the annotation that looks like connotation and robs you, mugs you in the dark alley of your fears.…
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Stupid AI Exploits
Let’s just say my prior AI article stands: whether machine learning or expert system, the bottom line is that conceptual and symbolic associations computation has a hard limit against the physics of the world. In my previous article, those physics come down to time and accuracy of the written word – also, confusingly, a symbolic,…
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Where Architectural Magic Happens
You know what’s beautiful? Publicly accessible spaces and projects that surprise, delight and create fandoms attended by well cared-for people. They are all over the world. Let’s make more.
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Stupid AI, Defined
Even now, the AI in my little computer wants to replace “because” with “be cause”.