Everything Looks The Same
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Everything Looks The Same
Empire of Same ❧ Current Affairs
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ALTHOUGH imitation is one of the great instruments used by Providence in bringing our nature towards its perfection, yet if men gave themselves up to imitation entirely, and each followed the other, and so on in an eternal circle, it is easy to see that there never could be any improvement amongst them.
On the Sublime and Beautiful/Part I/Chapter 17 - Wikisource, the free online library
And I hear all sorts of interesting worries and anxieties from people. Lots of people say something like, “Oh, I would like to be more playful and passionate, but that’s not what the world cares about. The world only cares about what is popular, what is controversial, what makes money.” To which I say – so what? You don’t have to care about what... See more
Gotta say, it feels like we missed an opportunity to reinvent social. Can you tell them apart?
anxiety surrounding AI art is less about computers becoming humans and more about humans becoming more robotic.
social media is robotic, formulaic. everything looks the same. everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.
what a computer can never reproduce is organic human emotion. it cannot recreate authenticity.
-paraphrased from Mango Street