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It's important to remember that outcomes are what matters, not the tools. But there's also a reason why tools are such a conversational centerpiece. Tools influence those outcomes a lot of the time, sometimes in a pretty big way...
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I've been aware of the phrase, "the medium is the message" for some time but I never knew where it was from. Turns out, it was coined by Marshall McLuhan in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man...
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Sometimes when I'm on the internet, jumping from hyperlink to hyperlink, I try to imagine what's happening from a bird's eye view. I imagine myself as a 2-dimensional point moving from node to node on an infinite graph...
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In my last essay, I spent a little time exploring the AI-focused Replika, a mobile app with the aspiration to be your virtual best friend. In writing that post, I found myself frequently branching off into the adjacent topic of avatars...
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I was on my phone the other day and came across Replika, an app that describes itself as your personal AI friend. Surprisingly, I remembered reading a profile on the origin story of Replika a few years ago...
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As someone who grew up on the internet, I occasionally think back to early memories online. When I fondly look back on these memories, I realize both how much and how little things have changed...