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Debates about Large AI Models revolve around their intelligence or its lack. It would be more useful to see them as a new cultural and social technology that allows us to harness unmanageably complex human-made information — à la markets and democracies. A product’s price or an election result are incomplete, selective but useful measures of large amounts of individual knowledge and actions

Debates about Large AI Models revolve around their intelligence or its lack. It would be more useful to see them as a new cultural and social technology that allows us to harness unmanageably complex human-made information — à la markets and democracies. A product’s price or an election result are incomplete, selective but useful measures of large amounts of individual knowledge and actions

https://henryfarrell.net/large-ai-models-are-cultural-and-social-technologies/

Kathryn Xu and Barry Petchesky debate the famous claim that “Infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters will eventually type the complete works of Shakespeare

Kathryn Xu and Barry Petchesky debate the famous claim that “Infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters will eventually type the complete works of Shakespeare

https://defector.com/point-counterpoint-monkeys-typing-shakespeare?ref=thebrowser.com&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaaWz84PajIB9yG9o31rS7AcPc_TxvxRTX22gdjKTBbEVm1hrcc9GGR5v0c_aem_ZH3EdUell5NWqk39xfAKmA

Enjoying Proust's idea that the railways invented minutes

Music

https://open.spotify.com/track/6YmNWu7guki413anuERrcF?si=fqhRYFLwSBSbfFgHfHflGg

When eternal youth comes with an expiration date: Huxley’s wild ride through the pursuit of immortality.

Gm /nft community. I’m selling one of my owned NFT called Themis. 

A little bit about Themis - https://opensea.io/collection/themis-1 

If you’re interested, please dm. Would appreciate it v much. Thanks

In Greek mythology, Themis is the goddess and personification of justice, divine order, fairness, law, and custom, and her symbols include the Scales of Justice.

Themis, unveiled at Kim’s solo art show Venus’s Garden, is an evolving NFT that shows the inequality between the sexes on a global scale. It is connected to live data showing objective and measurable benchmarks for global progress toward gender equality. The data is pulled from The World Bank’s “Women, Business, and the Law”, which is a database that pulls data from 185 countries and regions of the world. This database is divided into 8 indicators which are: mobility, workplace, pay, marriage, parenthood, entrepreneurship, assets, and pension.  Topics include but are not limited to:

Can a woman open a bank account in the same way as a man?
Is there legal provision that requires a married woman to obey her husband?
Is there legislation specifically addressing domestic violence?
Does a woman have the same right to remarry as a man?
Can a woman choose where to live in the same way as a man?
Is there legislation on sexual harassment in the workplace?
Does the law mandate equal remuneration for work of equal value?
Do sons and daughters have equal rights to inherit assets from their parents?

In our current day, where we have made much progress but still lacks total equality between the sexes, Themis is a display of pinks and red inks. If we regress, Themis becomes more red. As we progress, Themis becomes more pink and orange. Once the world reaches 95-100% equality, Themis turns to beautiful waves of gold. The unfortunate reality is that we may never see Themis turn pure gold in our lifetime. According to the World Economic Forum, it estimates it will take another century before true gender equality becomes a reality.

Themis

To pretend to play cricket, I actually play cricket. I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
–Jacques Derrida

https://alteredstatesof.money/fractional-reserve-emotion/?ref=thebrowser.com

“What will be, when it is, is what it will be when it is.” — Pessoa

Every now and then, out of the blues, i get this random urge to treat myself well. And then i end up getting myself drunk. Save me.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-does-nothing-weigh/

How much does nothing weigh?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/23/the-mercy-supermarket

We're at the stage I think of as pointillist spring. All the ephemeral wildflowers are rushing out of the ground to flower before the canopy closes in, and in their rush, as you can see, accidents do happen. https://i.imgur.com/dGmlBjY.jpg

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