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Hollywood has changed dramatically, in obvious ways to those old enough to remember the old system. Stars used to be marketed as gods, their words uniquely valuable, their images curated completely. Now it’s different. The internet makes controlling an image impossible, competition from social media, news, and unlimited streaming means only a handful of stars…
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In his book Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari says that symbols tie cultures together. Without them, we couldn’t unite into nations and tribes. Money is a symbol, national identity is a symbol, brands and institutions are a symbol. Symbols therefore are important, and the digital world rushes over us with new symbols and destroys old symbols.…
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“the curve we’ve been riding just flattened into a long plateau.”(X) – a sensible look at what physics and energy teaches us about the future of AI. “What would a human pretending to be an AI say?” Interesting read on the language used by chatbots, and how it is based on human language. “AIs are…
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Why America is exceptional, the federal government, music of the Revolutionary War, an American outsider
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Careers, watch security, cities of Homer, Magic the Gathering with AI, and young Hollywood
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Nihilism’s last gasp, and other links of the day.
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One Way to Frame a Dungeon. Build dungeons around disasters. If the dungeon is a disaster site, every NPC has a reason to be there. The Dungeon as a Mythic Underworld. A dungeon should be more than rooms. A dungeon is a place of myth: “…it is an underworld: a place where the normal laws…
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