Do Androids Dream of Electric Memes?
Memes mutate like cultural viruses, copypastas remix text into absurdity—and now, let's accelerate this using LLMs, blending the Navy Seal, Sherlock Holmes, Tintin, Gru, and Terry Pratchett into endless mashups.
There is no such thing as a climate alarmist
Imagine betting everything—your life, your children's future—on the unpredictable odds of climate change. The stakes are unimaginably high, and the danger is impossible to overstate. Yet, some would dismiss these warnings as alarmist.
Everybody's doing it (a Stable Diffusion test post)
A few years back, in February 2019, I, like quite a handful of people, heard for the first time of OpenAI's GPT-2. And while it sure was impressive, it only gave us a glimpse of what GPT-3 would be able to do a year later. Impressive wouldn'
We aren’t that remarkable
I've heard quite a few times that we, as a species, are terrible, destroying the Earth, ourselves, and that we are, all in all, the worse.
That's assuming a lot. First and foremost, that we are as smart and great as we think ourselves to be.
Work is a market
With remote work on the rise, I've seen people debating the fairness of companies adjusting pay based on one's location and cost of living. As if there ever was an intrinsic justification to compensation.
Spoiler: there isn't.
It comes down to people buy-in
The thought came down onto me as I was leaving a job interview. I don't know where it came from. I didn't care. It was here now. And it was obvious.
Whatever the idea. Whatever the project. It all comes down to people buy-in.
Everything to be said has already been said…
There’s a quote by André Gide, a French author, that goes along those lines: "Everything to be said has already been said. But since nobody was listening, it has to be said all over again" ...
