it's interesting to me how this idea has come up a few times lately. especially with Elon Musk becoming the first trillionaire, and the uptick in companies trying to push AI on us, it makes this concept even more prominent in my mind. Elon is the richest guy in the world but he still wants his twitch chat to like him. there's companies that are trying to steal information from humans that know things and sell us autofill machine services that give us a garbled and worse version of that information. those machines guess how sentences end, but they don't actually *know* anything.
even if I *could* know everything that was going to happen before it happened, I would choose not to. I simply wouldn't look. not knowing what's ahead is scary, sure, but I like surprise parties and when my friends surprise me with their kindness; I like surprising my friends with kindness and I'd be sorely disappointed if I could never do that again bc they saw it coming.
unpredictability and chaos is part of what makes things beautiful. it's also part of what makes things terrifying, but that's the gamble of life, and I'm glad it's a gamble and not a predetermined sunk cost.
it's interesting to me how this idea has come up a few times lately. especially with Elon Musk becoming the first trillionaire, and the uptick in companies trying to push AI on us, it makes this concept even more prominent in my mind. Elon is the richest guy in the world but he still wants his twitch chat to like him. there's companies that are trying to steal information from humans that know things and sell us autofill machine services that give us a garbled and worse version of that information. those machines guess how sentences end, but they don't actually *know* anything.
even if I *could* know everything that was going to happen before it happened, I would choose not to. I simply wouldn't look. not knowing what's ahead is scary, sure, but I like surprise parties and when my friends surprise me with their kindness; I like surprising my friends with kindness and I'd be sorely disappointed if I could never do that again bc they saw it coming.
unpredictability and chaos is part of what makes things beautiful. it's also part of what makes things terrifying, but that's the gamble of life, and I'm glad it's a gamble and not a predetermined sunk cost.
Such a wonderful text. Sounds like poetry. Beautiful and essential.
Great insight!