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An excellent interview! From deleted government records to disappearing music, our digital culture can be erased overnight. The Internet Archive’s Mark Graham and Chris Freeland explain what it will take to save it. adactio.com/links/22660
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[The Prometheus Shot – EK04 :: Beauty ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. Why does beauty matter? And why does it shape our thinking, creativity, and culture more than we realize? Beauty is not just decoration… not just taste… not merely a subjective quality. In this episode of The...
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[The Prometheus Shot – EK03 :: Approximate Thinking ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. On Incomplete Knowledge, Identities, and Social Inertia In this part of the “Edge of Knowledge” exploration, we go after a weird truth: approximate thinking is the operating system of knowledge,...
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So, new research shows that a) LLM-type “AI” chatbots are extremely persuasive and able to get voters to shift their positions, and that b) the more effective they are at that, the less they hew to factual reality. Which: Yeah. A bunch of us told you this. Again: the Purpose of LLM- type “AI” is...
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[The Prometheus Shot – EK02 :: Incompletness, Gödel, Polanyi, You! ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. What if the very core of knowledge is not certainty, but incompleteness? Let’s continue the provocative journey from the optimism of Hilbert’s program, his dream of a perfectly...
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Anderson’s Beautiful Cage When does a signature become a cell? Wes Anderson’s films—Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, The Life Aquatic, The Grand Budapest Hotel, and the Roald Dahl shorts—carry a lucid, coherent identity of color, framing, and quirk. In Asteroid...
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[The Prometheus Shot – EK01 :: Uncertainty, Bohr, Heisenberg ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. In this episode, we navigate the nature of uncertainty, not as a modern inconvenience, but as an essential feature of reality, knowledge, identity, and creativity. What if uncertainty is...
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DRAFT A concept so simple I wondered why I haven’t thought of it before. And why it isn’t already built-in in bash. This is a command-line interface to a knowledge base, using association and ownership. The interface consists of five basic commands: put to put a new entity in the database...
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[The Prometheus Shot – E014 :: Disney – How to Create Markets out of Imagination & Culture ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. Disney transformed storytelling into a logistical and emotional empire.. How did this happen? Who is Walt Disney, and what is Disney, really?What can...
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[The Prometheus Shot – E013 :: Escher’s Vision – The Creativity of Integration & Transformation ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. (See the Video / Podcast Links Below) In this Creativeness Dive, we embark on a reflective journey into the intricate universe of M.C. Escher—the...
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[The Prometheus Shot – E012 :: Decoding Leonardo Da Vinci: The Creative Polymath ] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. (See the Video / Podcast Links Below) The Polymath.A man beyond discipline—blurring lines between painting and physics, anatomy and poetry, mechanics and music. He...
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[The Prometheus Shot – E011 :: The City’s Alchemy : Systems of Innovation, Disparity, and Creativity] This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series. (See the Video / Podcast Links Below) “Cities are places with pollution, crowds, and inequalities… Yet most people on the planet fight for a chance...