Pit Schultz

the minted image is the official reproduction, calibrated, signature on the left lower side, deep turquoise tint, violet outlines of leaves. the tweeted image which went viral and provoked the comments was of lower quality, non calibrated, with a white shimmer, cropped and without signature. both violated the CC license, due to false attribution.

ソーカル事件のAI版。 反AIの人が手描き絵を誤解して「AIだろ」と非難することはときどきある。「そういうことがあるからAI絵は悪なのだ」というけど、誤解して非難したのは反AIの人なので、自分たちのせいだよね。

@ivan_8848 this clip is from Julian Assange’s speech at the Oslo Freedom Forum (in Oslo, Norway) in 2010.

🚨Assange Prophecy 🚨Assange's LAST Warning For Humanity 🚨Digital archives let them erase history with one click. 🚨The next: "Page not found." 🚨The next: "it never happened." 🚨Don't trust the cloud. 🚨Paraphrasing Orwell, Assange explains that he who controls today's internet servers controls the intellectual record of mankind. 🚨He warns us that Western governments, large corporations, and certain wealthy individuals are increasingly able and increasingly trying to remove material permanently from the historical record using sophisticated methods.

@teortaxesTex likely only longer term (>3 years)

if DSV4 will further enable the ability to hot plug new basins: add pretrained domain experts dynamically (no full retrain). Fixed core + shared STEM experts stay stable. New FNN module? Load & register. Meta-router (perf-matrix trained) routes via embeddings + gates activations strictly - reduced cross-bleed/hallucinations. Minimal router tune, modular, inspectable, forever scalable.

4.7 and 5.5 are still bad outside their RL-maxxed basins. it's kind of shocking to stumble into. We've got ways to go.

@whyvert made me dig for the book. ty.

Can you reduce all of political philosophy to one diagram? A pretty good attempt. (From a book on Machiavelli by Gabriele Pedulla.)

@docgotham @garrytan btw - both "archive fever" and the "archeology of knowledge" should be must reads for AI engineers.

Valid critiques of Foucault and Derrida hardened into untouchable canon in the humanities, spawning decades of sterile narrative warfare. The culture war has to stop. If you want superior epistemic machines, you cannot dodge epistemic critique - you must master it. California ideology’s philosophical toolbox is embarrassingly thin. That mix of ignorance and ressentiment now erupts into adolescent pseudo-philosophies: mind uploads, transhumanism, longtermism. Monstrous and absurd, on the same level as the manifestos of Alex Karp or Peter Thiel. Reality still ships. Build or perish.

Saturday morning and it’s a good time to think a bit about how our functional systems are being torn down by a mind virus by two philosophers: Foucault and Derrida Foucault: His framework tells you that every institution claiming to know something is really just exercising power. Medicine, engineering, law, science. Apply that at civilizational scale and you get exactly what Dan Wang warns about: a society that lost the will to build. Process knowledge — the tacit know-how that only exists in the hands of people who actually make things — dies when a culture decides that all knowledge claims are suspect. America went from building the Interstate Highway System and the Apollo rockets to being unable to build a train from LA to SF. That didn't happen because we forgot the engineering. It happened because we built an entire intellectual class whose job is to interrogate every system rather than improve one. Derrida: His move is that every commitment contains its own contradiction, so you can never land on firm meaning. Run that as societal firmware and you get the bureaucratic paralysis we now live in. Infrastructure projects stuck in 15 years of environmental review because every statement of purpose deconstructs under the next round of stakeholder input. Institutions that can't say what they're for because every draft mission statement gets wordsmithed into mush by people trained to find the hidden hierarchy in any clear sentence. Derrida is the OS behind a civilization that can write a 4,000 page environmental impact report but can't pour concrete. The real damage is these ideas escaped the lab. Every institution that adopted this operating system stopped trying to discover truth and started managing narrative. DEI bureaucracies, academic hiring committees, media editorial standards. All running on Foucault and Derrida whether they know it or not. The antidote is building. The physical bridge across a river holds or it doesn’t. The code compiles or it doesn't. Reality keeps score and it doesn't grade on a curve. Foucault and Derrida gave a generation a sophisticated excuse to never build anything. Their followers inherited the sophistication and the impotence. It’s time to build again.

@alex_prompter yet, the copy embedded into the tweet was inferior in comparision to the one he minted in his NFT. compare both, one is badly calibrated, cropped, misses signature, has a white shimmer. the other is sold to the highest bidder. both violate the CC license with false attribution.

Someone posted a "Monet-style AI image" on X and asked people to point out what makes it inferior to a real Monet. Hundreds of replies rolled in: "No depth, no cohesion." "Flat brushstrokes, no blending." "It's all borked nonsense with no sense of space." "The AI can't distinguish reflections from plants." "Garbage." Plot twist: It was a real Monet the entire time. Not a single person checked. They saw "AI generated" and their brain switched from art appreciation to flaw detection mode. This is confirmation bias in action. The label changed the perception. The art didn't change at all. The same painting hanging in a museum gets reverence. Label it "AI" on X, and it gets torn apart by people who'd pay $40 to see it in person. If your critique of AI art applies equally to Claude Monet, maybe the critique needs work. The conversation about AI limitations is important. But it has to start with honest evaluation, not reflexive hate.

Jiang's 'US engineered China's rise as dollar mirage' theory echoes real debates on post-1971 hegemony, offshoring & Chimerica. But framing it as total cabal control with zero Chinese agency risks Nazi-style scapegoating: turning policy failures + incentives into an omnipotent ethnic plot. Structural critique ok; conspiracy theory serves only bad actors.

Absolute bombshell. Prominent Prof. Jiang claims Washington deliberately engineered China's economic rise as an artificial illusion specifically to create massive global demand for the US dollar. He claims China's entire wealth is just a mirage controlled by the US.

@pengwinpants @SHL0MS no, it is an ongoing recursive scam, as long as it is not resolved it has a viral effect of disempowerment and deskilling. the page you show is probably the main work, but the NFT contains another jpeg made from the official calibrated reproduction, not the lo-fi one shown here.

The fun thing about this whole experiment by @SHL0MS is how it instantly shows you your own biases and how much the context something is presented in completely changes how you see it. Dropped a real Monet painting and said it was Ai… and the replies went hard. Then the twist hits, it’s an actual Monet. Suddenly those same “flaws” vanish. 😂 This is straight-up context/framing bias + confirmation bias in action. 😛 We don’t judge the art on its own... We judge it through whatever label or story we’re given. Expect Ai? Brain hunts for reasons to hate it. Expect museum masterpiece? Brain finds the beauty. 🧠 It reminds me of that classic Penn & Teller Bullshit skit I watched as a kid. People ranked “fancy waters” with all these deep pretentious notes… every single bottle was from the same god damn garden hose. 😂 When I was in NYC I asked my artist friend @justinaversano: “Justin, what do YOU think gives a piece of art its value?” The image itself came dead last on his list. Keep that in mind.... So what’s the big picture? A huge part of art’s (or anything’s) value isn’t just the brushstrokes or pixels... It’s the framing, the reputation, the story, the institution behind it. Our expectations do most of the work. youtube.com/watch?v=v2qydj…

@amadon what does this even mean? the output you show is not the same output shown in the tweet, speaking about dissonance. but it is less a cognitive, but an ethical one. e.g. is a false attribution a violation of the CC license, or rather a derivative work in itself?

consensus art? >NFT Art at Venice Biennale: Almost zero in the official core exhibition. Biggest moment: 2022 with Cameroon Pavilion’s NFT section (~20 artists) + massive Decentral Art Pavilion collateral (200+ works by 80+ artists incl. Beeple, XCOPY etc). Since then: minimal, mostly small phygital side shows. NFTs stayed parallel, never mainstream Biennale.<

i know a lot of people out here feel the same way as me, but everyone is afraid if they talk shit about "cryptoart" that people won't collect their work and they're right. and that's a fucking systemic problem that all the grifters out there want to make sure we don't fix

@eli_schein there is no way back to 2021

The digital art ecosystem is far too small to be so fragmented. It’s mostly ego and competing claims of impact or influence that pull people apart instead of bringing them together. We’d make real, substantive progress by being more collegial, collaborative and growing the space together.

@toadswiback show me the monet

onboarding retail.

@chrismartz he should have asked, "what makes it inferior to the NFT which i just put on sale" (which includes the official reproduction, with proper color calibration, non-cropped, with signature, yet false/no attribution.)

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the actual reason many of these digital artists hate "Monet" by @SHL0MS is that the execution of the piece was so simple they could have done it (post an image, declare image was AI) then it was sold in a simple direct auction also something they "could have done"

@teortaxesTex "Most SOTA LLMs lose money in live/agentic trading due to overconfidence, slippage, and poor long-horizon adaptation." huggingface.co/blog/charles-a…

Future prediction benchmarks are trivially scalable, uncheatable (under some assumptions) and impossible to saturate. They should be getting more love.

@chilltulpa @SHL0MS you might ask: at least it has shown how snobby and ill advised the AI deniers are? but you get it wrong, they fell for the scam and felt that this was a worse copy than the one sold in the NFT. fact: the scammer used two different pics.

@chilltulpa @SHL0MS you could say: BUT a lot of people have seen and talked about an important painter. did they learn anything? i doubt it, they unlearned something, feeling more vague, more empty and more dumb than before.

Here’s the thing about art, and attention, and the moment a viewer encounters something they haven’t experienced before... Not everyone is going to know Duchamp, or understand how @SHL0MS' work moves through conceptual and performative territory. Most people aren’t approaching art through theory first. They’re responding to what’s directly in front of them. The image, the gesture, the confusion, the excitement. The feeling that something unfamiliar just interrupted the endless repetition of the feed. What’s interesting is that the second SHL0MS’ work exploded, people immediately started quote tweeting Duchamp as a way to dismiss it. But most people on X have probably never heard of Duchamp in their lives. They saw SHL0MS first. And that changes the equation entirely. Conceptual art historically circulated through institutions, galleries, books, classrooms. Here, a contemporary artist managed to push similar tensions directly into mass online culture, at platform scale, with thousands of people participating in the work through reactions, outrage, alignment, signaling, deletion, confusion, all unfolding publicly in real time. We’re living through a period where so much visual culture collapses into the same language. Innovation almost isn’t even the requirement anymore. Deviation is. A break in rhythm. Something capable of interrupting passive consumption long enough for people to actually confront what they’re looking at, and why they’re reacting to it the way they are. And if you can introduce a different way of seeing into that environment, even when the underlying ideas existed before, you’re still pushing culture forward. Most people are not encountering these ideas through art history books. They’re encountering them through the internet, through velocity, through participation, through collective reaction itself becoming part of the piece.

@ricwe123 Trump is the Yeltsin of the USA, the chaotic transitional figure presiding over decline, desperate to close deals while the other side holds all the leverage.

The body language says everything. Xi walks in like the banker holding the leverage. Trump walks in like a salesman trying to close a deal before the market crashes. One projects control. The other projects desperation.