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...us output from others and choosing which subset to build on. That choice is the creative act. Of all of the things you've been exposed to, what do you find valuable to choose to build on? That accretion of intention is what powers folksonomie...
A second-hand summary of parts of Rick Rubin in The Creative Act: When you don't have the muse don't worry about it or try to get it to show up. When it strikes, push it as hard as you can and be thankful for it. D...
...powerful creative duo, much stronger than either would be alone. Irreducibly co-creative acts. The human as supervisor or editor to the LLM.[alv][alw][alx][aly]
...cially a chat; it's actually a way to drive an LLM to interesting outputs; a co-creative act that just so happens to manifest as though it's a normal chat. These kinds of open-ended exploratory conversations are just one killer use for LLMs, ...
...lent of a GUI for an LLM be[amk]? Creating the equivalent to the first GUI is a creative act wildly unlike building a new product in an existing paradigm. It requires multi-ply thinking.
...mplies that they vouch for any of the components used in the car; part of their creative act on the final car is making decisions about what components should exist and what is good enough.
...ly better than any individual could have done themselves. Coordination is not a creative act. Collaboration is a creative act. When you create together, the creative tension helps build trust. How can you kick a coordination challenge into a ...
...t finish the idea and then socialize it as a static thing. Socialization is the creative act; the place where disconfirming evidence emerges and makes the ideas better than what either party started the conversation with.
...a different kind of creativity. Actual innovation emerges from the bottom up, a creative act. To get innovation, you need to give space for acorns to have the possibility to grow.
You can't force someone to trust you. Trust is like love. It is a creative act that must emerge authentically without being coerced. Trust creates the potential for larger outcomes, because you now are willing to believe.
...n answer that is plausible within the context of everything else you know, is a creative act.
As you mature sometimes you find that the creative activities you did no longer feel meaningful. Normally people go through this when they retire. But now maybe all of humanity is contemplating their mass...
...lling part of what they said. Even deciding what subset to build on is itself a creative act, an act of selection.
...ut the difference is which side has the agency. You can't force someone to do a creative act. That can only happen via a pull, intrinsically. An ecosystem growing is a self-catalyzing creative act. An intrinsic energy. An aliveness. You can't...
Something that is "like clockwork" cannot be a creative act. A creative act requires applying your agency without coercion. If it's like clockwork, the agent is delegating their agency to the machine, to the c...