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Google Says AI Generated Content Is Against Guidelines (alt)
#Comment: Widespread use of AI generated content is a nightmare for search engines like Google. Large scale generative botnets could essentially poisons their entire index to the point of breaking. It is just a question of time until the Bot VS Bot adversarial game becomes unmanageable. And despite their silly rules, it is essentially unbannable. A great times for alternative service, which less heavily rely on pure algorithmic approaches.
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On creativity
Creativity is fundamentally a question of commitment. Of saying "yes!" to a solution amongst an infinite amount of possibilities - Of recognizing, accepting and giving birth to a new living pattern. Generating the artifact is the easy part, getting easier with each passing year. Telling the story behind an artifact and making it meaningfully part of the collectives imagination is an ongoing practice and magical art form.
(related) #Creativity #Generative #Magic #Culture #Praxis #KM
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“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” - Maya Angelou
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A Look At Nsibidi: The Long Lost Nigerian Writing
Nsibidi is an ancient system of graphic communication indigenous to the Ejagham peoples of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon in the Cross River region. It is also used by Ibibio, Efik and Igbo peoples. Aesthetically compelling and encoded, nsibidi does not correspond to any one spoken language. It is an ideographic script whose symbols refer to abstract concepts, actions or things and whose use facilitates communication among peoples speaking different languages.
Nsibidi comprises nearly a thousand symbols that can be drawn in the air (as gestures), on the ground, on skin (as tattoos), on houses and on art forms, such as masks and textiles. Though it is enjoyed as an artistic practice by the general public, deeper knowledge of the nsibidi symbols is restricted to members of men's associations, which once controlled trade and maintained social and political order. Nsibidi continues to inspire the work of many Nigerian contemporary artists such as Victor Ekpuk.
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The inordinate desire after knowledge
"When the inordinate desire after knowledge of things was allayed in me, and I aspired after nothing but purity and simplicity of mind, there shone in me daily a greater assurance than ever I could have expected, even of those things which before I had the greatest desire to know." - Henry More (1614-1687)
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Knowledge about Knowledge
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about" - Alfred North Whitehead
"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge" - Alfred North Whitehead
"Complete liberty of contradicting and disapproving our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action and on no other terms can a being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right." - John Stuart Mill (1859)
"Action without knowledge is vanity. Knowledge without action is insanity." - Imām Muḥammad al-Ġazālīy رَحْمَةُ الله عليه
"... and above every lord of knowledge there is one who knows more." - The Qur'an, Surah Yusuf, Ayah 76 (12:76)
"The manifestation of Truth is a mystery of Love, just as, conversely, the content of Love is a mystery of Truth." - Frithjof Schuon ق, Understanding Islam
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The burden of having too much knowledge
“Having too much knowledge is not good for people, just as having too much money is not good for them. It might sound like a strange comparison, but it is true: too much money is not a good thing, just as too much knowledge is not good if people cannot counteract it by using it in service of mankind or the world.” - Source (German): Rudolf Steiner – GA 348 – Über Gesundheit und Krankheit – Dornach, 3 February 1923 (p. 310)
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Anamnesis - the idea that humans possess innate knowledge (perhaps acquired before birth) and that learning consists of rediscovering that knowledge from within.
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An attempt to categorize the textual mediums we use to communicate - each category seems to have a behavioral archetype that influences what can be said
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The Framing problem
In an important sense there are no "subjects" at all; there is only all knowledge, since the cross-connections among the myriad topics of this world simply cannot be divided up neatly. - Ted Nelson, 1974, “Computer Lib/Dream Machines”
