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by swayvil 3y ago
One big difference between IRL art and computer art is in the breadth (bandwidth?) of the process. IRL art process is a subtle thing. Analog, fuzzy and mysterious. Computer art process is crass and pinhole-narrow in comparison.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Only a few rules are necessary for complexity. In ALife systems (Conway etc). In Fractals (Mandelbrot etc). In random number generation (Mersenne Twister etc) Maybe, in the big picture, complexity is trivial to create.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Forget radioing π into the heavens. This is the more potent message.
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by swayvil 3y ago
I would put it equivalent to Sinclair's famous, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” In this case the understanding = the religious stuff. So it's basically th
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by swayvil 3y ago
A victim has a lot of power though. A victim suffers. You aren't allowed to question a claim of suffering. Therefore a claim of suffering is an axiom. Axioms are the foundation of (a certain kind of) reality.
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by swayvil 3y ago
So electrons aren't actually moving from one place to another?
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by swayvil 3y ago
That's fabulous man, but it doesn't actually answer my question. If the answer is yes then we have moving electrons. If the answer is no then maybe we don't.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Does the thing at one end of the wire get heavier and the thing at the other end lighter? Because of the mass of the electrons moved from one thing to the other.
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by swayvil 3y ago
This is pretty good. It reminds me of Friendship is Optimal https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal
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by swayvil 3y ago
The Cookie Monster It's got the right stuff. His other stuff. A lot of it is pretty good. There's that trilogy with the layers of space. I guess I need to look at it again. But the group mind dogs. Interesting but not amazing. And
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by swayvil 3y ago
From a meditation point of view, reading is all about the concentration. You concentrate your attention upon the reading process. IE you concentrate on the sight of the words on the page, a little translation algorithm/habit in your m
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by swayvil 3y ago
Speaking as a guy who's drawn a few robots, that's a badass robot.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Reproduction strikes me as the first significant step in extending and debugging. But that's just me.
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by swayvil 3y ago
It's a gradient. On one end it's invisible. On the other end it literally flays the flesh off your bones with offensiveness. These filters that we're creating are a tool for tuning the feed. We'll want that when we reall
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by swayvil 3y ago
Do we blame the taboo or do we blame that which cracks the taboo?
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by swayvil 3y ago
No NSFW images as far as I can see. I suppose creating a filter is just part of the long road of development, but dang, such a petty cause. I might not want to be on that project, unless of course the money was good.
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Generative AI Helped Me Imagine a Better Robot(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by swayvil 3y ago|1 comments
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by swayvil 3y ago
Because with the power to control us comes the feeling that they should control us.
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by swayvil 3y ago
So you just take their word for it? Pretend that reading about it is equivalent to seeing it?
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by swayvil 3y ago
If the criteria for truth is a convincing argument, and we have a machine for generating convincing arguments to fit anything, and analyzing the argument is too much trouble, then what?
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by swayvil 3y ago
I agree. Rationality is invariably a rationalization of gut and emotion and such. A wrapper of symbols so we can think and talk about it. And justify our conclusions.
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by swayvil 3y ago
I was writing pretty cool stuff in c64 basic when I was 10. Just write it (on the dirt-primitive text editor) and run. This seems relatively troublesome.
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by swayvil 3y ago
I noticed that too. I know a lot of artists. None of them make 50K off their art. 10K is amazing. So hmm.
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by swayvil 3y ago
Sick reference, bro. Your references are out of control. Everyone knows that.
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by swayvil 3y ago
My thoughts about my memories - that "model" - is arguably realer than reality (this tapestry of sensations) to me. And it only gets stronger as I accrue more memories. Eventually, yes, it might dominate entirely. My whole life be
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by swayvil 3y ago
It's because they focus on a broader and more varied medium (stagecraft, devices, sleight of hand, reading people...) vs other artists (sitting in a room for hours focusing intensely upon little dabs of paint/clay/sound/
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by swayvil 3y ago
Nice job. That honeyed goo!
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by swayvil 3y ago
There will be an employee discount. Amazon will also offer cheap housing. Do they own farms yet?
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by swayvil 3y ago
what is this particular asteroid made of? Iron? Nevermind. It's a C-type asteroid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-type_asteroid A chunk of coal mixed with pebbles
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Amazon Is the Hospital Now(clinic.amazon.com)
25 points by swayvil 3y ago|20 comments

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