Victoria Rooke
@victoriatwig
Victoria Rooke
The question is not whether algorithms can ever foster greatness—they cannot. Their design is fundamentally at odds with the qualities that define great art: depth, complexity, and the capacity to provoke discomfort or transformation. The question is whether we, as creators and consumers, are willing to resist their influence.
Resistance does not me... See more
Resistance does not me... See more
Dr. Felix S. Grenwood • Algorithms of Mediocrity — william
Art and
All desire is a desire for being.”
We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.
We think we want things, but every desire points to a way of life, a kind of person we long to become. Objects seduce us not with their utility but with their promise of transcendence—status, attention, belonging.
Future and
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open.spotify.comMost skills/occupations are replaceable with superintelligence. But there will always an unexplainable niche eg artisanal handmade products, a wealthy person wants a human account
Free labour —> free wealth so the next question will be how do we derive meaning without work. What do we do to find meaning in our free 40hours.
Young great minds should be focusing on making narrow AI to solve specific problems (eg breast cancer) over superintelligence. Creating supperintelligence is contrary to improving their quality of life. BUT their is a race between nations, so it becomes about delaying the time taken to make it. We have to appeal to personal self interest to encourage those capable of creating these technologies that it is not an ideal outcome.
Why aren’t we talking about female radicalisation?
open.spotify.comWomen also enact mysogyny on our bodies. For example Tumblr as a space that promoted violence on female bodies (pro Ana, self harm, hyper sexualisation and kink)
When we police language, it just gets pushed further underground, harder to find and address
Why are people turning to white nationalism - from fear, poverty. This includes women but if we limit our idea of radicalisation to physical violence and not other forms, political violence, then we are ignoring a wave if radicalisation
As long as there is gender women will never be free
Sean Price William's LEGENDARY TOP 1000 FILMS LIST (in progress)
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1000 Films to watch
Letter 14: Susan Sontag on the Unbearability of Not Taking Photos (And Not Sharing Them)
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Thought provoking and Hyper-connectivity
Photographs as a substitution for presence/in real life connection.
“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs
is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted.”
— Susan Sontag, On Photography
Photographs, she argued, are rarely innocent: they turn experience into an object that can be owned, a world to be collected.
Something to think about in social contexts, in particular at social events such as social dances - are people coming to experience and connect vs consume and own.
Make art, and while everyone is deciding what they think of it, make more art.” — Andy Warhol
How to Manage Multiple Interests & Actually CREATE Something
youtube.comMake your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson