Mastodawn

I know it's more in vogue to just say we should burn all the AI, but this essay to me is such a striking example of how automating language gen allows us to see and appreciate the truly human.

The current education system in the US is not humane. It is yoked to capitalism and is the real machine enemy, a debt generation engine that destroys a love of learning.

This is no slight on educators, who are also victims of the system. 2/

E. Drake Kajioka Jan 7

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115854516419858457

Cory articulates the promise of AI for education: like the calculator made parts of math education obsolete, chatbots make obvious the lifelessness of the five paragraph essay.

The assignment for the future of ed is to create scalable systems that inspire the creation of meaning. The foundation of writing is thinking. By exposing the relative simplicity of fluency, we can push humanity to focus on the value beneath it.

Properly deployed AI helps us be more human. 1/

E. Drake Kajioka Nov 22

RE: https://mastodon.social/@edk/115595254558611687

Bumping into my own timeline with the TED talk link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PygUK16aQgk

Worth a listen. A future with stronger libraries is a pro-human (& pro living things thriving) future.

E. Drake Kajioka Nov 21

Is Mastodon the place to have this conversation?

I've been thinking a lot lately about Wikipedia, decentralization, truth, and the future of open information on the internet.

https://3sxp.ghost.io/the-debate-about-wikipedia-illustrates-the-coming-obsolescence-of-wikipedia/

The debate about Wikipedia illustrates the coming obsolescence of Wikipedia

A quick preface on current events: It is alarming to see members of Congress demanding the identities of Wikipedia administrators, and the acting U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. threatening the foundation's nonprofit status. The danger is that political actors are trying to replace an independent institution with one

Third Space Experience

E. Drake Kajioka May 17, 2025

Rudy Rucker May 17, 2025

Nice long interview of me by R.U. Sirius in online Mindplex magazine.
https://magazine.mindplex.ai/r-u-sirius-interviews-rudy-rucker-once-again-of-transrealism-being-happy-infinite-dimensional-hilbert-space/

R. U. Sirius Interviews Rudy Rucker Once Again: Of Transrealism, Being Happy & Infinite Dimensional Hilbert Space - Mindplex

Back in 1989, when I was part of the Mondo 2000 team and we were preparing our first issue that had a cyberpunk theme, we wanted to be sure we had interviews with what we were referring to as the “cyberpunk fab four.” Frankly speaking, we viewed William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker and John […]

Mindplex

E. Drake Kajioka Apr 3, 2025

Bruce Sterling @bruces Apr 3, 2025

*The simplest scams are the best ones

E. Drake Kajioka Apr 3, 2025

Blog post: “Ghiblification” and quick thoughts on distinguishing generation from creativity

"Creativity requires bravery. And bravery is only possible in the presence of fear. A machine has no fear and therefore has no hesitation, but neither does it have bravery."

With thanks to @pluralistic -

https://3sxp.ghost.io/ghiblification-and-quick-thoughts-on-distinguishing-generation-from-creativity/

#creativity #genAI #ai

“Ghiblification” and quick thoughts on distinguishing generation from creativity

My job has put me in the position of explaining creativity to technologists for a long time now. This function became about a thousand times more fraught as AI-generated images transitioned from “nightmare fuel” to what we see today. Wanting a chance to think about this with people I respected

Third Space Experience

E. Drake Kajioka Mar 13, 2025