Robin Sloan
8 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 29, 2017 by Robin Sloan · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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Nov 29, 2017
Nov 29, 2017 negative
Robin Sloan: Good creative work begins with a format, not a story
“I, you know, there's that thing you hear where people say, like, Okay, you have to come up with a story, and then you find the right vessel for that story. Like, does this story want to be a book, or a video game, or a HBO series, whatever. I think that is wro…”
Nov 29, 2017
Sloan discloses he regularly deletes his tweets to keep Twitter ephemeral
“My very tiny kind of lever against that, that system and my way of kind of keeping it something like a cafe conversation with the words just fading away is to delete my tweets on the regular and oh, I can report that it feels great.”
Nov 29, 2017 neutral
Robin Sloan: Digital software experiments inevitably break compared to durable physical books
“You make these digital things, and unlike a book where once you bind it up and put it on a shelf, even if it gets forgotten, even if it gets damaged, or, you know, whatever, it's like still, It boots somehow. You can, like, compile and run that printed book ba…”
Nov 29, 2017 neutral
Public sentiment toward Silicon Valley began darkening by summer 2012
“That particular shift, that sort of darkening almost of the tint was happening even as I was kind of wrapping up the manuscript for Penumbra, and I remember very vividly the last few passes in the summer of 2012 before it came out that fall, going through and …”
Nov 29, 2017 positive
Sloan: New technology accumulates alongside old crafts rather than replacing them
“Instead of the new thing replacing the old thing, it all just piles up in this, like, multi-car crash non-violent crash glorious crash, where everything is just kind of like, and the mountain is getting higher and higher and higher, and I don't know, I find th…”
Nov 29, 2017
Sloan: Human curation is as important as generative AI output
“The core interesting thing is the weird sort of wonderful output of this machine, right? But at the same time, you acknowledge that having a human kind of curate it and shape it and form it and just Be in the loop and be learning how to use it is just as impor…”
Nov 29, 2017 positive
Sloan: Google Magenta is one of few groups doing creative AI right
“I actually think, I think they're one of the sort of the few people slash groups that are doing it right. People on the podcast should know I'm making air quotes, doing it right. And that's only to say they're super competent technically and interested in kind…”