Randomness is inevitable and inevitably from an oberver perspective
@plinz
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Generative AI as Major Artistic Medium Like Photography and CGI
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To the contrary, generative AI is a medium as significant as photography, movie and CGI, and like all these media, it is welcomed with shallow derision by those who mistake its novelty and lack of established artistic practice for mere shinyness
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Generated Cat Image as Visual Representation of Catness Concept
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The generated appearance of a cat is a brush to visually represent the idea of catness
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Generative AI as Tool: Prompt Control Versus Randomness
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Current generative AI is not an artist, it’s a highly powerful brush, distilled from all other brushes it has been trained on. Its content is not the pretty picture, but the prompt and a random number, and it’s limited by the ratio of achievable prompt control to randomness.
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Measuring Economic Value Beyond Monetary Spending
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Academic Integrity and Disciplinary Compromise in Research
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In my interactions about the topic, I found that most academics believe in the integrity of most other academics, which can lead to weird effects when the mainstream of a discipline gets compromised
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Strong Untestable Claims Incompatible Scientific Epistemology
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Making strong untestable claims is incompatible with a scientific epistemology
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Is the World’s Mechanism a Living Organism?
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What does it entail if the mechanism of the world is a living organism, and how do you test for that hypothesis?
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Agentic Software Spirits: Consciousness Without Physical Universe Creation
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These entities exist, in the same way as you and me exist: as agentic software (= spirits) running on brains. But there is no evidence that they existed before Abraham’s brain, so
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E/acc ideology anarcho-capitalist opposition to deceleration
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e/acc does not try to make a rational case for accelerationism, it is (rather unprincipled) anarcho capitalist opposition to decels