2. An app that receives forwarded text messages from my iPhone and then outputs the text message onto a dedicated television connected via a raspberry Pi to display a cold-war era style GUI teletype sort of interface. It actually looks really stinkin cool

Is this history repeating itself?

The idea that content creators could be considered artists is one I may have considered before, but only tangentially.

What I'm also curious about...is how this commoditization and consumption via "influencers" has altered any individuals attitudes towards blatant manipulation. Free will seemed to be a much more guarded value. Now, the willing surrender of our free will seems to be the norm...

My intention for using that specific language was less with the implied language of introvert/extrovert, and was more intended to point out how simply going to an office is not enough to qualify as "socialization". Compulsory attendance in exchange for financial gain isn't a great example of voluntary socialization....

But I do agree that the claim being made is the false dichotomy you point out

I fail to see the argument you're making...

Features aren't made in a vacuum. If specs are made/written....with the information available now...then it's better than not writing specs.

Writing specs with incomplete information is better than not writing specs with incomplete information.

At the same time, a person working in an office has the illusion of social activity.

Just because a person works in an office doesn't mean they're more well adjusted socially, or more active.

Just because a person works remotely doesn't mean they're a recluse.

Life requires effort and being engaged. Though as a remote worker myself, I do appreciate the tendency to not make an effort. However, when I do make an effort, the effort is easier and the reward greater than social activities that'd be available during an office job.

I have to push back on the idea that token costs balloon when using TDD within the context of a strong framework such as Jason has laid out here.

If the feature is repurposed/removed/refactored....I'd argue the specification wasn't well thought out prior to burning into tokens.

We're so eager to do a lot of the wrong things quickly, when it may serve us better to do a more precise thing slowly.

I realize supply chain attacks are all the rage now-a-days, but this is the first time I've seen this ecosystem come under attack.

Looking forward to the additional context that is (hopefully) forth-coming.

This suggest then that the relevance of any solution would need to appease the employers... yet here we are trying to build/design something for employees first.

I didn't see a definition in the article, however I was reading Edgar Payne's Compostion of Outdoor Painting after reading your comment, and I was surprised to find the book talked about problem finding.

"Art is the art of disguising art". This means artists have to make a representation of a material object while obscuring all the rules and principles required to make the representation.

The problem is: how to make art without making it blatantly obvious it was an effort to make?

That said, if the users could organize into special interest groups and create a walled-garden with default no ads, and then gate-keep advertisers to a permitted white-list.

I dunno, I'm just spit-ballin

We have the ability to vibe these things over a weekend, yet getting to the critical mass/tipping point of adoption is something else.

Whatever happened to: if you build it, they will come?

Here's one interpretation though, for the discourse:

When given a task, some artists focused less on the objective and more on the process of observation. Observation of what, would be a logical next question. And I have to imagine and indulge in some projection here and guess that any of the artists may have been looking for more of a challenge, or more meaning. How to select some combination of objects, relative to the constraints of the circumstances for the task, paired with the skills they possess to produce the task at hand.

Given the proper acumen and a relatively subordinate task, I imagine some would tend towards Parkinson's law.

So following this, maybe problem finding could be seen as: how is this beautiful/aesthetically pleasing, or what do I really want to compose to fulfill this demand? What innate qualities do these things have which express some quality? Or maybe: how can I waste an hour of this man's time?

YMMV

> ...recalibrates the Salience Network's threshold for alarm.

Superficial googling reveals superficial information about the SN.

And more specifically, i'm curious what sort of physiological signals could verify recalibration.

I'm reluctant to say more about my own mindfulness practice; I feel the finer points about how or when to meditate are open to interpretation. Anyone can be as superficial or dogmatic as they'd like when it comes to choosing a practice, and how they adhere to it.

The point, for me, isn't strict adherence; It's both simpler and more interesting to let go of the preconceived notions of attempting to achieve something.

One thing I will say: If I believe I can't meditate for 5 minutes, I meditate for 15. This makes me more open and receptive in life when I find myself saying "....I should meditate".

And by "maintain a practice", I mean it's more like something I return to with frequency and less a daily compulsion.

Focusing on the breathe or ambient sounds is "easy", and is precisely the reason meditation is seemingly difficult. The mind craves more than simplicity; for some this occurs after a few seconds, for others after a few minutes...it all depends on the day. Learning to observe when the mind wanders is one part of the practice. Labelling the quality of thought that caused the wandering (planning, worrying, visualizing, replaying, etc)and returning to the simpler act of focus on breathe or sounds is another part of the practice.

This article is very much the author discovering some variation of meditation; if they feel the need to "invent" something and share it in a blog post...then here's hoping it promotes more people to give it a shot and maybe it'll lead to at least one person developing a new practice for themselves.

I was thinking about this recently: The difference between systemic (systematic) learning and opportunistic learning.

AI enables opportunistic learning, or Just-in-time (JIT) learning. It give the impression of infinite knowledge.

Most general concepts are well within the grasp of human understanding.

My curiosity RE the difference between systemic v opportunistic learning was the effect of longer-termed exposure/use to a tool that enables opportunistic learning.

I agree with your assertion regarding the degree to which a principle guides behavior. And id probably walk back my original position somewhat, because having a principle and adhering to it absolutely and fanatically is untenable at most and inconvenient at least.

Still, I'd argue there's value in a human engaging in some sort of periodic "principles audit" to take stock of their past behaviors/actions and recalibrate future behavior.

Then again, I'm an optimist....

If the tool being used generates fantastical fiction that isn't supported by factual data or verifiable systems, then eventually that falsehood will bubble to the surface; whether that is immediate (parsed through my own bullshit-meter) , the near future (during an agent-session that reveals itself to be a hallucination) or in the long-run (production bug/tech debt).

It's not my job to get an ideal "emotional" response from a machine. It's my job to deliver deterministic results with minimal fuck ups.

Emotion has no place in this exchange. If I don't know something, aren't I expected to admit it? And then do the work to subdue the knowledge to bring it under my domain?

Factual knowledge does not cease to exist because someone's in a bad mood....