Sarah Friend (isthisanart)

saying "thank you" to the chatbot is Pascal's wager for AGI

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questions for and about decentralized alternatives to big tech originally wrote this in early 2024 for a book chapter but publication has been indefinitely stalled, so dropping it on the blog https://blog.isthisa.com/decentralization-and-its-discontents/

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AI agents HATE this one weird trick for coming up with new art ideas ... wait. pray. do nothing. wake up suddenly in the middle of the night knowing

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I've been learning Chinese and this maps startlingly onto my experience w 漢字. My hypothesis has been that it's related to the same neurological phenomenon that makes the memory palace effective, aka memory is spatial and moving the hand is enough to trigger it https://x.com/prmshra/status/1862532036394983596?t=-2S2nmKPANzHcrDrdF3JKA&s=19

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AI agents HATE this one weird trick for coming up with new art ideas ... wait. pray. do nothing. wake up suddenly in the middle of the night knowing

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questions for and about decentralized alternatives to big tech originally wrote this in early 2024 for a book chapter but publication has been indefinitely stalled, so dropping it on the blog https://blog.isthisa.com/decentralization-and-its-discontents/

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