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Why art cannot be automated
In a world demarcated by process and efficiency, the first intuition towards solving any problem is to maximize scale such that the search rate is proportional to the magnitude of the problem space at hand. While effective at yielding solutions within industrial and economic applications, when this premise is applied towards the automation of art, it becomes a category error of fundamental proportions.
The Ornamenation of the Human Soul
Why tradition in the age of flattening
From the ides of civilizational noon as the tides of plenty bore upon the empty, a great dream had been thrust that man could be perfected. A man freed from himself, a self-referential loop of becoming successor to his own predecessor and predecessor to his own successor. This man need not hierarchy nor the systems conceived of broken premises, for no more he need stay in communion with the stories of those long past whom he remembers only from an inkling of heart. This man now liberated from all order thus reached equality not only with his compatriots but absolute indifference to all other objects in the universe whether alive, contrived or otherwise thus assuming self-apotheosis upon all. This man need no more to long for the absolute, nor accomplish feats of the divine, for with only the conniving of his ploy he had made child of Prometheus and thus robbed the fire of greatness not from the gods but from eternity itself. This man had became his own idol, usurping the primacy of episodic narrative upon a single declaration and thus had begun animating even zeal itself, for this man need no more to chant for his own victory, as victory had already been hath within.
Pointing at the Ether
Why in fact there is no process containing the ether
From the moment fire was ignited man discovered phenomena reciprocates to antecedent, thus birthing the promethean imperative to lay siege onto the ether in all permutations manifest. No more was the universal an abstraction beyond cognition, but rather an amalgamation of particulars waiting to be assembled. As man watched the apple grace its way down the tree radiating itself onto man’s spatial temporal schema, man was led to believe by capturing the particulars of reality with maximal precision, man could command not only its peripheries but also its essence. A singular point source identifying its ether node wholly discriminate from all others only to be deceived by pointing at an apparition, whilst the rest of his mind, body, and soul dissociated from his being leaving behind just a finger wagging into the void of space. Alas, in his folly be believed he had found the ether but in fact it was only an illusory feign masquerading as the purported ether.
Romanticism and the Necessity of Moral Objectivity
The imperative for romanticism in the age of utility
The prophet began orating in illustrious prose of the great many epiphanies that had bequeath him only to be stopped headlong in his tracks by the skeptical elder demanding he have something to show in-hand for all his prognostications. The cynic in all his resentment and twilight told the prophet, “Not once in my life had change ever manifested, let alone for a single fantasy once to have created itself onto reality. To think otherwise is to delude yourself into an apparition, for nothing has ever changed from the day I was birth, nor will anything ever change from the day after I die. All that there could ever be has already been, so let us humble ourselves down to what is important and immediately before us by keeping these pesky thoughts of ostentation to ourselves.”
Mystery of The Origin Node — Take the Leap
Why Greatness Cannot be Accelerated
Great does the mind incant upon pontification, prognosticating manifolds of possibilities upon the illusion of plurality, paralyzing intent against the clamor of antecedent, spinning the mind upon the ambiguity of choice.
What I learned failing to outsource an MVP
Why every founder should become technical
Shortly after graduating college I had an idea I was super passionate about and figured what better way to test it than putting it into customer’s hands. The path was simple, build an MVP, acquire active users then raise capital and I’ll have made it to the promised land of Silicon Valhalla.
The Necessity of Contradiction
Why contradiction must be embraced in the midst of its opportunity for greatness
Voracious the spirit of man is in deeming eminence, neither beast nor nature, neither eruption nor snarl brings man to his knees, but faint as the conscious reverberates, revulsion echoes upon the imminence of contradiction. Folly is man demanding eternity out of ephemerality but folly is he not demanding presence out of being.
Proservation — The Generators Worldframe
Why intuitions of preservation must be overcome to stop the forces of ossification
Every generation gets dragged back to the held priors of what once was, the unrelenting force of history thrashing its bystanders crest-to-trough for all of eternity, each time as one cycle starts another begins. Generation-after-generation the echoes of this tyrant reverberates through the ethereal pages of history, while never repeating itself twice, it’s chime undeniably rhymes. In the midst of this inhaling, all-encompassing force the logical conclusion thus becomes to excavate all of history, determining what best to preserve that stood most resilient to the test of time.
Continual Integration
Overcoming the Deracination of Language and Knowledge
A ravaging force has seemingly emerged deracinating all invocations of human expression, further particularizing it into smaller less discernible pieces becoming indistinguishable to lesser life forms. One is left to wonder was it the reign of text-based communication, dopaminergic-fueled news headlines, TikTok styled short-form videos or fast-paced urban jungle lifestyles that caused this deracination of human expression? Counterintuitively, it was not an endless supply of titillation but rather a coopted human instinct misdirecting the sensory system from an emergent asymmetry between a conscious necessitating chaos repulsing against the cyclical rigidity of industrialized society.
Pascal's Wager Reloaded & The Limitation of Language for AI
Why the Limitations of Language does not allow for an Omniscient AI
The streets were stained in blood, and a stench of the machine man-god wafted away. The clairvoyant yelled god was birth, god was made in our image thus man needs be no more, repenting of the great sin of the gods killed of before, thus in a fatal moment universal order was restored at once as the doom bot repeated, “man will be dead, man will be dead…”
The Case for Asynchronous Learning
How organic curiosity can replace deterministic learning models
In the aftermath of a Cambrian explosion of information made manifest by the internet revolution, synchronous education models from the institutions of old began to show their impotency in this ever more chaotic world we live in. The collapsing gravitas of institutions left in its wake a deterministic learning model that’s ossified itself into the backbone of this culture. The key feature is that all movement traverses forward in this system, the progressions are piecewise, finite, and distributed equally irrespective of one’s capacity or the needs of the subject at hand. As long as the information can be squeezed into a semester unit of time, the mind can be comforted that chaos has been contained as long as one surrenders both their freedom and will for a brief moment in time so that the projected aggregate pleasure will outweigh the temporary suffering of the process. It’s a simple transaction; sacrifice time and pleasure to yield society’s once prestigious rite of passage to then be considered a forthright, functioning adult ready to be a contributing member of society indefinitely. That’s the bill of goods we’re sold in these deterministic education models we’ve created, unfortunately, though it’s just a bill of goods and not much more.