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One day the monk heard that Buddha was coming to town. So he ran to town and exclaimed to Buddha "I have practiced levitation meditation for 20 years and now i can walk on water." Buddha looked at the man and said "yeah, but the ferry boat is only a nickle".
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A society that systemically disrespects the rights of non-human life (animals, plants, etc.) but celebrates the rights of machines, is inherently insane.
The currently popular notion that "more energy use = better outcomes overall" is naive juvenile nonsense. Nature strives for ecological coherence in a complex web of life-forms, that are hyper attuned to their environment, use energy highly efficiently and create minimal waste.
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In 1859, a man named Thomas Austin released 24 English trolls into the wild for sport hunting in Australia. By 1959, the troll population of Australia grew to 10 billion. By some accounts, half of all internet users today are Australian trolls.
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The exceptional team at @okio_ai has been absolutely killing it developing nendo, the open source generative AI music tool suite. As we teeter on the edge of the generative music revolution, there's an exciting rhythm in the air, that fills my heart with joy.
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We are heading into a world of "self-optimizing media experiences", where in a data-driven feedback loop, generative systems continuously adjust parameters to meet the demands of fine grained customer segments. Coming sooner than many think, with K-Pop doing this already at scale today.
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It's amazing how giant orgs (big tech, intel, etc.) where everything is highly compartmentalized and on a strict "need to know" basis manage to get anything done at all. This modus operandi might work ok to manage specialized savant geniuses, but is dysfunctional for most else.
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'"How is phenomenal space related geometrically and topologically to physical space?" ... The Cartesian error that no mental elements can be extended has crippled progress in this field for three centuries.' – JR Smythies, 1992
