Pseudo-Marxist RDR2 NPC doc, with Westworld overtones.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/opinion/npc-video-games-red-dead-redemption.html
“50 edgy ladies” Another large-scale poster plotted with the #axidraw SE/A1. I’ve been trying to put to rest a slight obsession with asteroids. Made with data from DAMIT and JPL Small Body API. And some vpype-fu.
Attention is all you need.
Stop for a second and think that some living legends are among us. Examples:
Roger Penrose
James Watson
Jane Goodall
Noam Chomsky
Daniel Kahneman
John Searle
I am so stoked to see Meridian Brothers live.
I was about to say something bad about the UN A.I. For Good Global Summit and how they botched that robot thing.
But let’s focus on something positive instead.
This recent interview with Douglas Hofstadter reinforces in me the idea that even before any risk of misalignment, the biggest risk already upon us is a crisis of motivation.
Tired: turning your bedroom into a camera obscura.
Wired: replicate the entire history of camera technology inside Blender.
Ushering into an era of plausible deniability. https://restofworld.org/2023/indian-politician-leaked-audio-ai-deepfake/
Potentially falsifiable, but not necessarily easily or definitively falsifiable.
I owe a big part of my productivity to this short essay: https://structuredprocrastination.com
Thanks, John Perry.