Everything Looks The Same

exploring the endless forces luring towards conformity and sameness

One philosophical objection I have to Silicon Valley is that people are very derivative. They tend to rely too much on what other people do. When everyone relies on what everyone else does, you end up getting a deeply mimetic-culture where no one thinks for themselves.

phoebe

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

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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

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It’s Not Just You: Websites Really Do All Look the Same Now

Angela Lashbrook onezero.medium.com

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More of the Same

Tal tals.substack.com

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Empire of Same ❧ Current Affairs

currentaffairs.org

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Gotta say, it feels like we missed an opportunity to reinvent social. Can you tell them apart?

Andy Allen

twitter.com

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