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I love stuff like this that can mean different things to different people, and various things to one individual person, depending on the day / their state of mind.
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#ambiguity
Actually, it isn't what it is
My fascination with ambiguity goes back beyond even my doctoral thesis, although it was only between 2016 and this year (2026) that I had a dedicated blog on the topic.
Whether or not we choose to admit it, most of life is ambiguous. The main way this comes up for us as social animals is intra- and inter-personal communication: what does that mean. We're constantly second-guessing ourselves and others, searching for ever-better heuristics to help understand the world.
…Ambiguity and artefacts
Despite their different framing, thinkers like Tharp, Kleon, Pressfield and Rubin... all describe roughly similar (or subsets of) aspects outlined by Csikszentmihalyi:
Preparation → Incubation → Insight → Evaluation → Elaboration → Sharing
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The English language is weird and versatile
It turns out that you can add the word "only" pretty much anywhere in this sentence.
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The term "AI slop" is sloppy
I am in agreement with Manoel Horta Ribeiro here: "AI slop" is an unproductively ambiguous term and we should be more specific in our critiques. There's a lot wrong with AI, and there's also a lot wrong with the mechanisms underpinning the ways in which we have constructed society and our relationships with one another.
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