everything is a remix

creativity is defined by the uniqueness and appeal of the combination of elements

All authors are just very refined plagiarists, recombining tokens based on formulas to produce strings that copy patterns found in their input. “Intelligence” is nothing more than the appearance of intelligence, and imitation is the same as the real thing

Orion Magazine • The Magic in the Machine

Keely Adler

the stream

Linus Lee stream.thesephist.com

Tanuj

Tiktok, Emergent Creativity, The Limits of Social Graphs, and whatever else Eugene talked about (E1)

youtube.com

sari

It also helps to travel in topic space. You'll have more new ideas if you explore lots of different topics, partly because it gives the angle grinder more surface area to work on, and partly because analogies are an especially fruitful source of new ideas.