Claire Hosking

the vix feels like it lacks a step to be properly cybernetic. like I would expect "vix measures market" > "vix changes some lever" > "lever affects market" > "vix measures market" to be cybernetic. but it seems more like "vix measures" > "measures affect market" > "vix measures"

I think you make a good point to think about who gets more powerful and who gets less powerful with the tech.

the number of always-on, always-sensing feedback looped systems (cybernetics) today is incredible

Is it really the technology's fault if people have poor judgement? Are we arguing there is something inherent that makes the judgement poorer? some quality besides novelty that makes people unaware that LLM prose has a generic-ness to it?

how do you measure that? particularly the denigration of crafts?

I want to know why people are so angry about LLMs. Anger is the reponse people feel in response to real or perceived injustice-- what's the injustice here?

further, going bacn to the proto indo european meaning "to turn". Which is appropriate for cybernetics, the study of circular feedback systems.

a rare post where the replies are full of good riffs

I always assumed the word cybernetics came from the combining of 'cyber' and 'network', but it actually comes from the greek kybernḗtēs, meaning a pilot/helmsperson of a ship. (because it's the discipline of feedback loops, recursion, and other circular governing systems)

And onto another one. Will slowly chip away at this over the course of this week.

#illustration #art #portugal

cool user name

It feels bi-directional? People used tech as metaphors for thinking, people used their understandings of cognition to design tech systems.

I always assumed the word cybernetics came from the combining of 'cyber' and 'network', but it actually comes from the greek kybernḗtēs, meaning a pilot/helmsperson of a ship. (because it's the discipline of feedback loops, recursion, and other circular governing systems)

such sour grapes

I really want to see footage of what was happening at the north end. Why couldn't they let 200k people just discharge into north sydney

Epstein’s British accuser Anouska De Georgiou ‘close to Trump’ The first British woman to accuse Jeffrey Epstein of abusing her previously claimed to be close to Donald Trump, having met him through an alleged accomplice of the convicted paedophile. Mr Trump, the...

Of interest, this was 1997, six years after Ghislaine teamed up with Epstein.

Trump met Anouska at a “party in Manhattan”. Since Ghislaine was there… maybe at Epstein’s townhouse. Epstein and Trump were already close friends by this point.

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I guess she’d aged out. But still seems to fit a certain pattern.

I wonder if they shelved it b/c the original Bioshock is too anti-right-wing?
(but mostly I suspect it's because there is no way to make a higher fidelity bio 1. the unique character of the game was entirely due to pushing perfectly against the limitations of the time, without them, it falls apart)

boil chicken, any left over veg, onion, tomato, bouquet garni together for 1-2 hours. strain out solids. boil down until concentrated, then pour into an ice cube tray and freeze. boom, stock cubes.

yeah and that's how it used to be done in generative art communities prior to the last few years. You'd make your own model or bot tailored to the outputs you wanted to produce.

You can only get unique stuff out of it if you prompt for the possibility space inbetween the training stuff -- ie you can get unique syntheses of the training stuff.

Over 100,000 Australians marched across the symbolic heart of Sydney today, and together we showed more leadership on one rainy afternoon than our PM and Foreign Minister have shown in 2 years from the comfort of their offices. Free Palestine. Sanction Israel. 🇵🇸 🕊️

what do you mean "will give a unique response"? You mean they claim if you give the same prompt twice you get a different thing each time?

we did it

illustration of a cat riding on a mini boat strapped to the back of a swimming crocodile. They are swimming under some arches and columns that were built over a now flooded ground.

swimmy

I'm used to antivaxxers denying that covid has any health burden at all but I just ran across an account that believes covid will kill the entire species off unless we mask up. It was its own kind of doomsday cult. Tried to get them to make a bet with me for when this will occur but they refused.

You called my response "hardly humane"

use a magsafe charger to reduce wear and tear on the port

You keep accusing me of being mean just by disagreeing.