tag > Culture
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Léon Krier on how well buildings age, using the example of Yale U. By now we are near, or passed, building maintenance singularity: buildings need urgent repairs as soon as, or before they are completed.
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Stand in Line
The quickest, most effective way to get human beings to “fall in line” in both accepting AND exercising behavioral norms (no matter how new or nonsensical) is to literally make us form and wait in a line. An innate, preprogrammed desire for obedience kicks in when we are queued.
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Is the A.I industry a monoculture?
I've worked in the machine learning sector for many years - at giant corporations and small startups. One thing that strikes me as true everywhere, is that the A.I industry is dominated by young men, which have very similar educational & socioeconomic backgrounds and related interests & hobbies. Women, older people and people with unusual career paths are a rare anomaly in A.I, to name just a few examples that illustrate the lack of diversity. Is the A.I industry a monoculture? And if so, what are the implications of that for the industry & world?
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What are the effects of Generative Media on Human Psychology?
I want to read a study on the effects of prolonged exposure to ML generated images. Interested in questions such:
- Do people start to question the "realness" of non-generated images?
- Do generated images show up in people's dreams?
- Does the perceived value of images change?
- etc. etc.
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Real Power is Soft
"People who are capable of seeing only the gross external aspect of things can perceive India as a nation of conquered people. They seem to be incapable of perceiving that in the philosophical & spiritual realm India conquers the world." – Swami Vivekananda
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A neuropsychological condition that causes a distortion of perception. People may experience distortions in visual perception of objects, such as appearing smaller (micropsia) or larger (macropsia), or appearing to be closer (pelopsia) or farther (teleopsia) away than they actually are. Distortion may also occur for senses other than vision.
Image from: The Curious Case of the Fast Feelers: A Reflection on Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
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The word 'Paris', the capital of France seemingly originated from the 'PARisians (people) of ISis'
Picture: The French 'Declaration of human rights'
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"Progress" is not a inevitable law of nature - but series of decisions people make. Keep that in mind when "experts" try to sell you an "inevitable" future scenario. "I'm not against progress, I'm just against your kind of progress".
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Generative Attention Poverty
When Herbert Simon in 1969 wrote about how "a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention" he foresaw our times. With ML systems starting to pump trillions of generated artifacts into our media ecosystem, what do you think will happen to attention?
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There are thousands of freakishly explicit images on 4chan, generated with Stabel diffusion. - It's easy to imagine how the entire insane xxx industry will be dominated by generative media soon. One more step towards mass wireheading.
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Marduk - a god from ancient Mesopotamia and patron deity of the city of Babylon.
Image: Nineteenth-century engraving by Gustave Doré, showing the scene from "Bel and the Dragon" in which Daniel reveals the deception of the Babylonian priests of Bel, a syncretized form of Marduk.
