Sundari

model + semiotician; socially: adorkable, fiscally: nerd

[Sundari @platosbasement]

The few seconds before you ask AI a question are when you are actually your smartest.

Your mind scans through memories, pulls from those past experiences, and tries to make connections across different things you've learned. Sometimes you land on the answer, sometimes you don't. But regardless of whether you're right or wrong or simply can't reach the answer in that moment, you're a curious person.

That's so much more impressive than we give it credit for. It's impressive because we've collectively lost the ability to be genuinely curious. And in turn, this has destroyed our ability to do a lot of things.

Recently I became interested in mini computers and PDAs from the 80s, 90s, and 00s. Right off the bat, AI was giving me contradictory answers about when these devices were actually conceived. I had to download original handbooks and sift through internet archives and forums to find any real information.

I don't think my obsession would have evolved if I weren’t forced to do that work myself. Curiosity saved me there. The friction made me more invested, not less.

But that experience feels rare now. Most of the time, we're not doing research driven by genuine curiosity...we're just feeding an information habit. We've become little information vacuums, constantly hungry for more, more, more. And because there's always more to consume, it feels foreign or uncomfortable to do/know nothing. Even for a moment.

The overconsumption of information is starving out our natural ability to experience the peace of not knowing. I don't think we're getting smarter/dumber with all this access. We're just getting worse at thinking, and in turn, worse at simply existing.

And this same pattern shows up in what we create, not just what we consume. All of this AI slop that we are able to make now is a representation of what happens when you skip a lot of the problem solving, the building, the friction…the stuff that actually helps your brain grow.

I don't know if I'm right about this (and I'm basking in that uncertainty). But I think protecting the space to be curious without certainty might be the next real luxury.

[Sundari @platosbasement]

Why has no one been able to create a miracle drug for the common cold??

[Sundari @platosbasement]

website is updated for aug :p https://t.co/bfmS7Bp1Bq

[Sundari @platosbasement]

Get more whimsical! Now!

[Sundari @platosbasement]

Never seen anyone sleep as peacefully as guzey earlier today at the imax, 70mm, first row, 2am showing of the odyssey…

[Noah Herman @noahhermanyt]

an older lady brought in her gorgeous 2004 Apple Cinema Display because it finally gave out AFTER 22 YEARS!! 🤯

this is one of John Ternus’s earliest Apple projects. over two decades of real-world use from a single display. what a run 👏👏👏

[Sundari @platosbasement]

DC feels like a city made out of legos

[sharon✨coming to venice🎬 @iamsharonle]

watching The Odyssey the way Christopher Nolan intended

[smit @itsoksmit]

at a job interview

"whats your biggest weakness?"

"understanding the semantics of a question but ignoring the pragmatics"

"could you give an me an example?"

"yes i could"

[Sundari @platosbasement]

mhmmm

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It's insane how much better life gets when you get enough sleep.

[Sundari @platosbasement]

@alexeyguzey I found the source of England's heat wave :o

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In Warsaw right now for a conference with ~100 commercial semioticians. There are maybe 150 of us in the world!

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@hazn_com true true true

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First time back in london after living here for most of the pandemic and it genuinely feels like such a different city now.

[Sundari @platosbasement]

Hitchhiked in Yorkshire over the weekend! People in the North are so friendly.

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Wait I'm so nosy I want to know what the convos were like on set lol

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War flashbacks

[alex bronzini-vender @alexbronzini]

The Instagram algorithm has begun serving me elite kindergarten admissions content

[Sundari @platosbasement]

Working on a research project and I need to talk to superfans, casual users, and skeptics of AI chatbots (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc etc etc).

Please fill out this form if you'd like to be involved :-) https://t.co/5SNktCvYR1

[Sundari @platosbasement]

Okay sf

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Ivy Woke