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Artistry is EI (expressive intelligence—an intelligence developed by creatively exploring meaning-making and feeling) rather than the process of producing an artifact of skill (technical talent). Technical reproducibility doesn’t capture the aura of artistic expression. nulla machina nisi cerebrum

Karl Bode@karlbode.com

there's useful automation, and then there's this broader lie they're telling: error-prone, environmentally problematic software built and managed by terrible people is a perfectly symmetrical replacement for talent, education, age, and experience

26/7/25, 4:10 pm1 repost4 likes

Benjamin Boorowski 👻

@typeoneerror.com

26 July 2025

Benjamin Boorowski 👻@typeoneerror.com

One thing that I've been ruminating on lately is there is an interesting difference between talent and intelligence. I think AI is actually closer to AT. One gains immediate talent through LLM, but no real intelligence.

Benjamin Boorowski 👻

@typeoneerror.com

26 July 2025

It's absolutely a radical act to create "bad" art. It's beautiful to "suck at drawing". It's fantastic to "not be great at guitar". It's wonderful to "just be starting out". Phenomenal to be "non-technical".

Benjamin Boorowski 👻

@typeoneerror.com

26 July 2025

The idea that we can and should be great at all things is a poisonous belief; an attempt at deitycraft. We should not be and we should be more comfortable with that discomfort. A future where everyone is everything is a horrific dissociative hell.

Benjamin Boorowski 👻

@typeoneerror.com

26 July 2025

Benjamin Boorowski 👻@typeoneerror.com

Feels like a proxied religious war. Silicon Valley gestating their own egregore with AI fundamentalism, which in turn helps "the right" and "the left" (meaningless terms at this point) workshop/worship their own hyperindivdualized gods; vessels for hopes and fears. Deitycraft—as old as the species.

Michele Hansen

@mjwhansen.com

26 July 2025

Ben, you'd love this Ezra Klein interview that's been rolling around in my head: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_WC...