software and meaning • metacognition • augmenting human intellect • tools for thought • humane design • user experience • https://xitter.cf/t.co/cQyCSBHRFQ
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Software is this delicate bridge over the chasm between symbolic computation and human experience. What's required to make rocks think with electricity is very different to what's needed to make humans have a useful and enjoyable experience.
Ok, that’s it, I’m off.
Although Twitter technically still works, it stopped working for me because many people I was here for have moved on.
I’ll try a longer break and won’t try to replace Twitter with something else (for now). 👋
Find me here:
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Ok, fine, even though I'm going to sit this out here as long as it takes to ride it into the ground, here's where we can stay in touch:
I’m retreating from Farcaster for now. It’s great and looks promising, and I wish them all the best. I’m going to take a proper time off microblogging.
Commodify all the bullshit. Make it worthless through abundance. (That part is going great!)
Free up capacity and force humanity to figure out what’s really important. (Yeah, not going so great at the moment.)
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Profoundly misunderstanding what “design” is in a nutshell
Call me when midjourney can research & define the problem space, negotiate with stakeholders, do information architecture, develop a coherent conceptual model for users, build prototypes, run user interviews, and ship it
🤖 AI Designs are here *hot take*
Designers dismissing AI could soon be out of jobs
It's a good moment to embrace and learn how to bend AI to your advantage instead of missing out on a paradigm shift in what tools we use to work
📝 Prompts used are found in the image alt texts
ALT App UI design, health and science, cute color palette, Behance, Pinterest, dribbble::3 --v 4 --q 2 Midjourney
Last time I was 3 months into writing and publishing regularly, I had already given up. I was constantly unsatisfied with the results and it was too frustrating to keep up.
I can’t believe I’m now 3 weeks ahead so I can take the holidays off without dropping a beat.
The observer effect in higher-level systems:
Whenever we think we’re objectively measuring something, it’s simultaneously creating the motivation to game that metric, therefore distorting its findings.
Social media lives from that principle. (Like & RT, if you understand. :)
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Most people need their IQ to get accident free to work, not for doing that work. Commuting camouflages replaceability. #AI #nearfuture
“Don’t ban [AI] for students — or anyone else for that matter; leverage it to create an educational model that starts with the assumption that content is free and the real skill is editing it into something true or beautiful.”
stratechery.com/2022/ai-home…
But perhaps just enough time left for us humans to figure out what we really want after the excitement of generating images and articles from language prompts wears off a little and we need to figure out how to add value to most real-ish tasks. studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/the-…
If you work in technology and freak out about AI models automating you away, does that tell us more about how advanced AI has become, or how primitive technology still is?
Funny that ChatGPT happened this week. My recent post may look like a concerned response to it, but I wrote that last Monday. And I’m actually enjoying all the funny and sometimes fascinating bot conversations. (So you thought Twitter has a bot problem? :) stefanlesser.substack.com/p/…
What do we do then? Well, I don’t have answers either, but I think I’m exploring a promising path that at least leaves us with a better understanding of how we make sense of the world around us and what we deeply consider significant. stefanlesser.substack.com/p/…
Perhaps one day, once we can see through the fascination of endless entertainment and polarizing capture of our attention, we might finally start caring about and discover all the ways these technologies can move us forward as a species. youtube.com/watch?v=sdvzYtgm…
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Thoughts on tools in Tools for Thought space.
ALT Mom ignoring drowning kid meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mother-ignoring-kid-drowning-in-a-pool showing “Tools for Thought Community (circa 2017–2022)” as the mom playing with the kid “Remixes of Engelbart demos” with subtexts “multiplayer apps”, “infinite canvas”, “hyperlinked text” while the kid “Tough problems in PLT / economics / maths / sciences that need better interfaces to address them” is drowning. Made by @prabros.
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Adaptive Design has come up a few times in conversation recently, in the context of end-user software customisation and also as a participatory method to discover new features
interconnected.org/home/2020…
