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What’s Missing Says More: The Semiotics of Omission
We spend our lives surrounded by signals. Most of them are obvious—what someone says, what they wear, the metrics a company puts in a slide deck. But some of the most telling information comes not from what’s there, but from what’s missing.
A woman on a dating app with only headshots is probably... See more
We spend our lives surrounded by signals. Most of them are obvious—what someone says, what they wear, the metrics a company puts in a slide deck. But some of the most telling information comes not from what’s there, but from what’s missing.
A woman on a dating app with only headshots is probably... See more
What’s Missing Says More
“So preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.” While
The False Promise of Understanding Yourself
open.substack.com
via Max Nussenbaum
Human advantage will be caring about other humans: “humans care about other humans and also not at all about machines”
His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.
His most striking prediction: “Who in this room would say with conviction, I’m sure I’ll be smarter than GPT5? Not a single person.
Sam Altman bfast with JB.
(note: i want to write about intelligence)
”Once you do one thing, if you have a modicum of success, and you think you can do a second, third and fourth thing, you’re wrong. You can’t.”
-Micheal Saylor, via Laser Eyes
Do you understand his temperament as an act of denial or an act of acceptance?
What an interesting question. I’ve never been asked that before. I suppose I understand his temperament mostly as a great gift.
I’m not trying to deny my father the credit he deserves. I know my father made a great many decisions about the kind of life he wanted to live... See more
What an interesting question. I’ve never been asked that before. I suppose I understand his temperament mostly as a great gift.
I’m not trying to deny my father the credit he deserves. I know my father made a great many decisions about the kind of life he wanted to live... See more
Opinion | Our Lives Are an Endless Series of ‘And’
This isn’t really anything novel. But in our hyper-digital age, how information is framed often matters more than the substance of that information itself.