Liam Spradlin 🌻

₊˚✧ designer focused on the future + philosophy of design | ☕️ | 📻 | 🧑‍💻 boardmember, queer coding camp ✧˚₊

[Geoff Shullenberger @g_shullenberger]

If you can’t see at least some parallels with Elizabeth Holmes here I don’t know what to tell you…

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

@romannurik

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

Revisit this episode featuring Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of DuoLingo, recorded at SPAN in Pittsburgh.

📻 Tune in: https://t.co/nYvHGbNflb

#Gamification #EdTech #GameDesign #Learning #Podcast

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

half the replies on here now are just AI bots rephrasing what you posted. it's a shame because twitter's reply section used to be a modern-day salon where great minds once gathered to exchange ideas in good faith and advance the human condition

[james hawkins @james406]

wow, AI does it again

i recently discovered i ran out of food in my fridge.

before AI, i would have just slowly starved.

but this time, i just asked Claude.

it told me there are these things called "stores" that will sell me new food.

there was one just 3 minutes away.

unfortunately 3 minutes is a bit too far and Waymo isn't in my area yet so i'll probably just starve

still cool though!

[🦇 la exploradora 🕸️ @Missy_dee811]

Isn't it so beautiful that we see the sunset every day and it still moves people?

[Megan Fritts @freganmitts]

In the piece I'm working on, I'm arguing that what drives a lot of AI recklessness and anti-humanistic sentiment is an inability to accept limitation (perhaps especially mortality) as an essential and valuable aspect of a human life. (1/2)

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

stay tuned for my book next spring :)

[austin @austinskhosana_]

it's so crazy how for years we as an industry went on about empathy maps, persona designs, user journeys, wireframes, only for everyone to become obsessed with the idea of one-shotting interfaces with artificial intelligence.

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

Liam speaks with public space designer Ignacio Ciocchini, who’s created much of the furniture that New Yorkers encounter every single day.

📻 Tune in: https://t.co/iDxV6WPhdO

#UrbanDesign #IndustrialDesign #Architecture

[François Chollet @fchollet]

A common sign that you are in an insane millenarian death cult is that you axiomatically convinced that the Apocalypse will happen within a few months, you are constantly on the lookout for signs that it may have started, you feel both fearful and *excited* about it, and you're constantly talking about it with your friends, who happen to *all* have the exact same set of beliefs.

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

Liam speaks with Google engineers Connie Shi and Matvei Malkov, unpacking what makes coding a creative practice.

📻 Tune in: https://t.co/anolffo1rb

#DevTools #CreativeCoding #DesignSystems #SoftwareEngineering #Podcast

[Jenny Judge @judge_jen]

This is an excellent debunker of AI consciousness by some of the biggest names in consciousness science (@anilkseth @De_dicto and Giulio Tononi)

Don't listen to the techbros. They have no idea what they're talking about where consciousness is concerned.

https://t.co/3VQKHUdIss

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

Rob Giampietro, then Design Director at MoMA, unpacks the aspects of your museum experience that you might not even think of as design.

📻 Tune in: https://t.co/HCOZaPEnod

#MuseumDesign #Art #MoMA

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https://t.co/OtbCrPMVT9

[Brandy Jensen @BrandyLJensen]

“computer please remove the world” really is a guiding motivation for so many of these freaks

[John Pang 彭润年 @jynpang]

1/ We arrived at this ontological inflation of the machine exactly through ontological deflation of the human.
You've undergone the long arc of the Western reduction of the soul to code so now you think code has a soul. The deflation & inflation are two sides of the same coin.

[Liam Spradlin 🌻 @iamliam]

It is too late, I have already depicted both my computer and the human brain as identical mesh shaped line drawings

[spor @sporadica]

since we're doing the AI conscious debate again, i want to remind everyone that despite how nice the insanely surface-level analogies seem, we would do well to scrutinize things at an appropriate level of detail

this --> is not the same as this -->

[Cheese For Everyone! @CheeseForEvery1]

Anthropic:

[David Z. Morris @davidzmorris]

The Plan:

We take members of the Catholic clergy to a very fancy dinner and convince them that the AI is conscious.

Then we can't be sued for all the hacking we let our software do

[sententiae antiquae @sentantiq]

Stop anthropomorphizing computer programs while dehumanizing actual people challenge

[Pope Crave @ClubConcrave]

"not only are your gen AI memes ugly, they are ontologically hollow" - the pope