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Sup guys!? Seems like we have a whole lot of new subscribers to the newsletter.
Just want to thank you guys for being here!
To those already subscribed, I want to continue thanking you for your undying support.
So, why exactly didn’t I post these past few weeks?
It’s fair to say that I had been caught up with something…
Yes, I was playing around with GPT-3… and no you can’t make me feel bad for shirking my duties as the publisher of this weekly newsletter…
That said during the time I’d been away, I had still been working.
I wrote about my personal experience and impressions about GPT-3 on the main blog. You can check that out here:
GPT-3 and the Simplification of the Creative Process.
I feel GPT-3 and its various successor technologies present us with a new way of thinking about creativity. I delve briefly into it.
Subsequently, I also published some notes on the book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions on Patreon. So make sure to check that out if you haven’t already.
I find that book relevant to everything going on right now. We face crises everywhere. Crises that range from our frustrations about the lack of changes taking place in our various societies, down to stagnations in our fields and lives.
Many of you are Futurists, Developers, Scientists, Engineers. There are even some Lawyers and future Lawyers amongst you. In short, you are people with a general fascination with systems. You span various backgrounds. But you all have a general fascination with how systems work.
Thomas Kuhn posits that there is a structure to the way progress happens in systems. He claims there to be a certain way in which progress, concerning scientific institutions, takes place. I hope my notes serve you as a pathway to reading the actual book itself. It’s a hard read, but its a significant one.
I still have two massive newsletters I was writing that I’ve kind of shirked on. I delayed one of them after I realized GPT-3 made some points that while somewhat incoherent, made me feel like I should write a bit more critically.
Anyway, you’ll be hearing more about that soon.
Wish you all an amazing day… or night… or midday, wherever you find yourself.