Tag: Creativity
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Books are meant to be thought about.

Welcome back to my TED talk on the dangers of AI in creative fields, a sporadic series that was not meant to be a series at all. But the news continues to report on “exciting and innovative developments in the field of AI” and people continue to be greedy, selfish, and simple, and here I…
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Part of a healthy balanced breakfast, or the myth of procrastination

I love Lucky Charms. I love that, like Pop-Tarts and Dinosaur Egg Oatmeal, it is very nearly pure sugar that has somehow conned us into believing that it is a nostalgic breakfast food and not a decadent, once-in-a-blue-moon dessert. The commercials tried so hard, too: an aesthetically pleasing bowl of Lucky Charms with the perfect…
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I like your elephants!

My freshman year of high school, the only year I took art, I was assigned the task of making a sculpture that was at least four feet tall. To the best of my recollection, it could be anything we wanted and made from any materials. (Normal people made giant soda cans and person-sized pencils out…