calling taste as just design literacy is very reductive in a sense. design literacy sharpens taste. it does not fully create it. exposure to only liberal arts and culture only produces algorithmic mimicry.
@Math_files > invents formulas
> refuses to explain
> elaborates occasionally
> leaves
> mathematicians spend the next century unpacking his notebooks
@beastoftraal if IPL had failed nobody would have remembered IMG. everybody would have rekt lalit modi. plus it is naive of balu nayar to write "you were in one room, franchise sales" he is talking as if it wasn't the most important part. without that, everything would have fallen apart.
this is the biggest wake-up call to protect and nourish open source AI
if you don't build out sovereign and independent models+infra closed labs will patronize you to an insulting degree
@protosphinx's spaces are culturally important. should happen more often but my increasingly fringe opinion is that he should stop trying to schedule spaces and simply leave a 20-minute vns every day. they would be a public good.