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Joined February 2009
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Rob Giampietro, then Design Director at MoMA, unpacks the aspects of your museum experience that you might not even think of as design. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/the-most-t… #MuseumDesign #Art #MoMA

The Most Transformative Job in the World: Rob Giampietro, Design Director, MoMA

MoMA’s Rob Giampietro on how design shapes our understanding of the world around us.

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Brandy Jensen@BrandyLJensenOct 5
“computer please remove the world” really is a guiding motivation for so many of these freaks
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John Pang 彭润年@jynpangOct 2
1/ We arrived at this ontological inflation of the machine exactly through ontological deflation of the human. You've undergone the long arc of the Western reduction of the soul to code so now you think code has a soul. The deflation & inflation are two sides of the same coin.
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@ChristopherHaleOct 2
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious. Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm. For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…

NYT: Anthropic Nearly Walked Out on Pope Leo XIV’s AI Encyclical — Then Lobbied His Advisers

Chris Olah saw an advance copy of Magnifica Humanitas days before the Vatican launch and proposed withdrawing over its stance on machine consciousness. The pope held his ground.

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It is too late, I have already depicted both my computer and the human brain as identical mesh shaped line drawings
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since we're doing the AI conscious debate again, i want to remind everyone that despite how nice the insanely surface-level analogies seem, we would do well to scrutinize things at an appropriate level of detail this --> is not the same as this -->
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Cheese For Everyone!@CheeseForEvery1Oct 2
Anthropic:
Danny Slavich@DannySlavichOct 2
Anthropic: Claude has a soul Leo: nah Anthropic: please say Claude has a soul Leo: nah, here’s a book length explanation why that’s not true Anthropic: we’re pretty sure Claude has a soul Leo:
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David Z. Morris@davidzmorrisOct 2
The Plan: We take members of the Catholic clergy to a very fancy dinner and convince them that the AI is conscious. Then we can't be sued for all the hacking we let our software do
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sententiae antiquae@sentantiqOct 2
Stop anthropomorphizing computer programs while dehumanizing actual people challenge
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Pope Crave
@ClubConcraveOct 2
"not only are your gen AI memes ugly, they are ontologically hollow" - the pope
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it's incredibly important to understand that they seriously believe the machine will evoke a posthuman subject
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Christopher Hale
@ChristopherHaleOct 2
NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious. Olah’s team then privately lobbied the pope’s advisers “to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously.” Pope Leo XIV held firm. For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing. thelettersfromleo.com/p/nyt-…

NYT: Anthropic Nearly Walked Out on Pope Leo XIV’s AI Encyclical — Then Lobbied His Advisers

Chris Olah saw an advance copy of Magnifica Humanitas days before the Vatican launch and proposed withdrawing over its stance on machine consciousness. The pope held his ground.

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Of all the negative impacts of generative AI, I think the most haunting may be the way it revealed that a significant number of people have seemingly no emotional attachment to the art they consume whatsoever. For some reason that part in particular is really upsetting to me.
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@nicksaraevSep 28
I am not joking when I say this. Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over. AI music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all AI music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago. Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.
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Liam Spradlin 🌻@iamliamSep 27
My new essay, published last week in Aeon, covers some of the ideas I’m thinking about the most lately. It only gets more urgent that we understand the quasi-spiritual culture of compute for what it is: a terrified disavowal of human vulnerability. aeon.co/essays/if-computers-…

If computers count all the petals, who tastes the cherries? | Aeon Essays

The computist has one dream: to debug the subjectivity out of all of human knowledge, creating a pure, frictionless world

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I truly don't understand the continued willingness to report uncritically on what a random rich guy SAYS is going to happen in the future. Like it's not even exciting or interesting, it's just the “in 18 months everything will be blueberries” tweet
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James Bridle joins the show to discuss his book “New Dark Age” and the importance of understanding the systems we live with. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/what-its-l… #ArtAndTech #DigitalCulture #NetworkThinking #Podcast

What It's Like to Really Know: James Bridle, “New Dark Age”

James Bridle explores the importance of having agency in the complex systems in which we live.

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I wonder when someone will receive the first profound metaphysical revelations from their little fuzzy ai mascot.
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My new essay, published last week in Aeon, covers some of the ideas I’m thinking about the most lately. It only gets more urgent that we understand the quasi-spiritual culture of compute for what it is: a terrified disavowal of human vulnerability. aeon.co/essays/if-computers-…

If computers count all the petals, who tastes the cherries? | Aeon Essays

The computist has one dream: to debug the subjectivity out of all of human knowledge, creating a pure, frictionless world

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In this episode, Liam speaks with Clinton Cargill, then visual director at Vanity Fair about what motivates creative work. 📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/what-do-yo… #Photography #EditorialDesign

What Do You See; How Do You Feel? Clinton Cargill, Visual Director, Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair’s visual director Clinton Cargill on looking at photography with intent.

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Birju Vachhani 💙
@birjuvachhaniSep 19
More examples... gorgeous gradients!
Birju Vachhani 💙
@birjuvachhaniSep 19
If this doesn't convince you to use easing gradients for your #Flutter apps then I don't know what will. This a #flutter package I am building...
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Google Design
@GoogleDesignSep 17
In a live chat, ending a sentence with a period reads like an act of aggression. That’s just the emotional tax of talking through glass. To bring real warmth, bounce, and presence back to the screen, we’re rolling out Noto 3D. Go behind the scenes with @jenniferdaniel to see how translating our flat emoji into full 360° dimensional characters unlocked unexpected design challenges → goo.gle/4diXoc0 #GoogleDesign #3D
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