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May 20 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
Three cats as a New Yorker cartoon | surreal art | unreal engine | 35mm f2.0 #dalle ImageImageImageImage
Three cats drawn by Alphonse Mucha | Edvard Munch | Hayao Miyazaki | Salvadore Dalí ImageImageImageImage
Three cats drawn by Leonardo da Vinci | Pablo Picasso | Walt Disney | Mark Rothko ImageImageImageImage
Three cats drawn by Lucas Cranach | Moebius | Andy Warhol | Vermeer ImageImageImageImage
Three cats starring in a movie by George Lucas | Wes Anderson | Stanley Kubrick | Alfred Hitchcock ImageImageImageImage
My absolute favorite of the bunch: Three cats starring in a movie by Andrei Tarkovsky ImageImageImageImage

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May 20
What I've learned from illustrating the Book of Imaginary Beings with DALL·E 2 #dalle
In 1957, Jorge Luis Borges and Margarita Guerrero wrote the "Manual de zoología fantástica" which collects descriptions of beings from myth and fable. My friend @nikete came up with the idea of feeding it as a collection of prompts into OpenAI's DALL·E 2.
DALL·E does not process very long prompts, but thankfully, Wikipedia and other places on the net provide abbreviated descriptions. My goal in producing the illustrations is not scientific, or to show shortcomings of the system, but to show how well an AI model can dream.
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May 20
The Book of Imaginary Beings, by Jorge Luis Borges (1957) #dalle
Á Bao A Qu: A creature that lives on the staircase of the Tower of Victory in Chittor. It may only move when a traveler climbs the staircase, and it follows close at the person's heels. Its form becomes more complete the closer it gets to the terrace at the tower's top...
Abtu and Anet: Two identical fish that according to Egyptian legend swam in front of the prow of the sun god's ship on the lookout for danger.
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May 13
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, because it relates to an aesthetic, and individual aesthetics interact with personality. Beauty is maximally subjective, because it is bound to the consequences of the interactions of the preferences that define the individual.
While an aesthetic is subjective (to the degree that it can fully define the subject), the space of possible aesthetics is objective, which makes normative discourse across different aesthetics possible.
When understanding an individual, it is important to understand their aesthetic.
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Feb 5
A conspiracy theory is a narrative that gives meaning to the world by connecting significant dots with confabulation and motivated reasoning, making truth and fiction indistinguishable. The consensus narrative does that too, but it aims at unifying society, not splintering it.
In the past, governments and media could project unified narratives into democratic societies. Social media and the internet created a lateral flow of information that puts consensus narrative and conspiracy theory on equal footing, which is dangerous to normative cohesion.
The internet has also made it difficult to create conspiracy theories that cannot be debunked. Too many puzzle pieces are floating around, too many source materials are available, too many inquisitive minds interact. The internet has made my world more truthful.
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Feb 4
The trust crisis in a nutshell: The important aspect in this mashup is not whether Covid leaked from a lab, but that every single talking head who said that they have some definite proof that it did not was straight up lying. (via @mtaibbi )
Notice how Fauci himself is carefully hedging while trying to spin the desired opinion: "I am very strongly leaning towards this could not have been...", while the secret service speaker and the TV anchors refer to an unshakeable "scientific consensus"
Highly relevant in this context is Scott Alexander's concept of "Bounded Distrust" (a strategy familiar to people who grow up in totalitarian states), i.e. a careful calibration of our reading of official news based on how far we expect reality to be bent. astralcodexten.substack.com/p/bounded-dist…
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Feb 3
I read Genesis as a narrative model of the creation of the universe, which happens inside of a mind. The creator is a conscious agency that forms in the patterns of brain activity before we are born. The first thing it discovers is how to make light and separate it from darkness.
After the creator discovers contrast, it can create color and shape, and establishes the two dimensional plane of the ground, and the three dimensional space above it, which is the stage of our world and anchored to the sense of up and down. The world creates an aesthetic reward.
Next, solids and liquids, organic shapes and animated agents are created; after that the features that cannot be interacted with: the firmament and the celestial objects. The plants and animals are constructed, and associated with their names.
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