perhaps even more importantly, the funding structures themselves are completely uninteresting. anything funded by a grant is just blandly mimetic of the institution's ideology. movies used to be dreams emanating from the unconscious of capital but capital has lost its imagination
perhaps even more importantly, the funding structures themselves are completely uninteresting. anything funded by a grant is just blandly mimetic of the institution's ideology. movies used to be dreams emanating from the unconscious of capital but capital has lost its imagination
As a result of these much larger outcomes we've built a movie-making system that is focused on big hits because the business model can't really absorb too many massive flops. So you get sequels, prequels, and spin-offs. Established IP and bankable stars. No big risks. And you don't get nearly as much experimentation, innovation, or creativity.
Kyle Harrison • The Death of a Venture Fund
Content has become like clay. LLMs can remix it, summarize it, elaborate on it, hallucinate it, combine it with other content, freely transform it between text, audio, image, and back again. It seems we have achieved a kind of information post-scarcity. A regime of radical overproduction. A content singularity. How will this change things?
Gordon Brander • LLMs and information post-scarcity
Scientists often bemoan the state of originality in their field. New ideas are getting “harder to find.” Progress in large fields of science and technology is “slowing down.” Scientific knowledge has been in “clear secular decline.” (One wonders about the originality of their bemoaning.) But today’s researchers aren’t getting worse at coming up wit... See more
The Atlantic • Is America Really Running Out of Original Ideas?
