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A strategy how to make computational creativity system outputs much better:
Give bots the ability to spend real-world money.- Generative Music Bot? Let it buy new samples.
- Generative Design Bot? Let it buy new fonts.
- Generative Journalist Bot? Let it hire mechanical turkers.While this strategy might seems like a "hack" from a "pure", academic computational creativity perspective - it is precisely such hacks that will make generative system outputs become "good enough" across many creative disciplines in the near term.
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Today I received the following email from a team-leader I had the pleasure of working for, during a creative ML project for a big corp client. Made me happy & proud :-) #Work
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"Algorithmic culture. Culture now has two audiences: people and machines" - A conversation with Ted @striphas by @gg: https://medium.com/futurists-views/algorithmic-culture-culture-now-has-two-audiences-people-and-machines-2bdaa404f643
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The older i get, the more i respect people that answer questions with "maybe" or "i don't know".
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You should view the world as a conspiracy run by a very closely-knit group of nearly omnipotent people, and you should think of those people as yourself and your friends. - Robert Anton Wilson
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The roots of the word "algorithm": The word "algorithm" goes back a long way. All the way back to the Abbasid caliphate 12 centuries ago, as a matter of fact. The word comes from the name Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (which in its Latin version became "algoritmi"), a mathematician born around 780 in what is today Uzbekistan and who died in Baghdad around 850. Because of him, the West learned algebra.
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The "Remix.Army" and "DadaBots: Socially Automated Dadaist Music Remix Bots" presentations by @dadabots from a few years ago are still super fun!
"So before we start thinking about how evil machines are, really this is just meta music - instead of playing the music, we are playing the musician" - @dadabots
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10min docu on a "junk-news pioneer" aka pro fakenews creator:
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George Orwell said “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.” Yet this Yugoslavian proverb is even more succinct: “Tell the truth, then run.”
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The hardest thing about being honest, is knowing your own truth.
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Self driving cars are only 5% as exciting as the vision of cities with out any cars at all.
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New books on the reading list:
"The Myth of Human Supremacy" - by Derrick Jensen: https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Human-Supremacy-Derrick-Jensen/dp/1609806786/ Book Review: "Why are we killing the planet? Jensen nails troubling answers": http://www.eastvillagemagazine.org/2017/06/19/review-why-are-we-killing-the-planet-the-myth-of-human-supremacy-nails-troubling-answers/
“For all its redoubtable constructive achievements, authoritarian technics expressed a deep hostility to life,” wrote Mumford.
"The Process of Creating Life: Nature of Order, Book 2: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe" - by Christopher Alexander: https://www.amazon.com/Process-Creating-Life-Building-Universe/dp/0972652922
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Evolving Botnet thesis: In an online world dominated by a handful of giant corporations, only two entities make money comfortability: The Corporations - and Parasites, heavily using automation to extract a cut from the corporations. #Bots
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Palo-Alto Syndrome: "feelings of trust or affection felt in many cases of abuse or hostage-taking by a user towards a giant corporation".
Inspired by the well documented "Stockholm Syndrome". #Ideas
