The Strange Unpredictability at the Heart of Our Common Humanity

I wrote the first version of this as a Medium post before ChatGPT, LLMs and AIs became the hype-thing it is today, just for the record. 😉

But, I would argue that much of what actually characterizes everyday life — the creative moments arising out of artful improvisation on the spur of the moment — will still continue to be opaque to systematic surveillance: there will still be ‘strangeness in the commonplace’. It is these performative moments of narrative dissonance that we should be conc…