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Sonal Chokshi
@smc90
strong bias for makers. I heart art + tech. hayekian, capitalist. EIC a16zcrypto; Editor in Chief a16z + podcast showrunner 2014-2022; fmr WIRED, Xerox PARC
sone.eth | 917-area/9-zip code Katılım Mart 2008
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The moving train window displays for Chanel at Bergdorf Goodman?? INSANE
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Beyond chuffed to welcome @iscoe to @NotionHQ and the storytelling team. Unsurprisingly, he captures why it's more important than ever to invest in "sense-making", as @smc90 has called it -- and why Notion is an incredibly special and unique place from which to make sense of this particular moment.
If you share our vision of betting on the human side of AI and tech, reach out -- I'm hiring storytellers of all stripes.
EMILY SUNDBERG@Emily_Sundberg
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@0x_nation @smc90 We used to cut with scissors and paste with Scotch tape.
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@smc90 pure value in restructuring, not just editing words. that takes real skill.
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@smc90 the part about seeing both gestalt and atomic moves at once really hits different, honestly. most editing is just either big picture.
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it is both.
One property of this tool is that it can automate infinite images or sounds.
A property of the economy is that when something is abundant, its price falls. This makes whatever models can't supply (purpose, social connection and autonomous ingenuity - the human part) more scarce.
There is little anyone can do to prevent companies or anyone using closed or open models to flood the world with cheap images or music. That ship has sailed.
If all art or music were just pixels or samples, that would devalue them entirely.
But art and music is a lot more than pixels and samples, and some artists will use those same tools to make new and scarce things in a world where its effortless to make something meaningless.
Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex
Saying AI is just a tool in the creative process is misleading - because this isn’t the AI companies’ aim for it. The aim of the (big) AI company is to automate more are more. There is no hard limit at which point they will say ‘ok, that’s enough automated now’. Their goal is for their systems to be able to create autonomously, to generate entire creative works with essentially zero input. If there is a part of the process they haven’t successfully automated, they will work on automating it. The word ‘automation’ comes from the Greek ‘automatos’ - self-moving, self-acting. Automation, in its truest form, acts on its own. And there is little pretense from AI companies that they are not trying to build the ultimate automating system. If AI were truly intended to be ‘just a tool’, AI companies wouldn’t let it write entire stories, or generate entire artworks, or compose entire songs. They could easily stop their products doing those things. They don’t. AI is not ‘just a tool’. It is designed to replace something human - this is in its name. And there is no incentive for AI companies to stop short of full automation. From their perspective, the more that can be automated, the better. Tools help with part of the creative process. AI, in its fully-realised form, replaces all of it. AI is not ‘just a tool’.
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Baby has gotten good at identifying “dada” but still struggling with surrealism, cubism, even baroque.
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@andrewfenton Indeed I had this thought about fantasy literature the other day… brits had a chokehold on that for a long time
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@joshmh that's another great example. was reading the making of the atomic bomb and it dwells on this. budapest in 1900 yielded one of the greatest concentrations of scientific talent in history. maybe the #1.
highly recommended
amazon.com/Making-Atomic-…
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Reminds me of the Hungarian-Jewish "martians" in mathematics and physics:
John von Neumann
Paul Erdős
George Pólya
John Harsanyi
Cornelius Lanczos
Alfréd Rényi
George Szekeres
Marcel Riesz
Frigyes Riesz
Tibor Radó
Theodore von Kármán
Eugene Wigner
Edward Teller
Leó Szilárd
Dennis Gabor
George de Hevesy
Magyar
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I’ve thought about this. It’s bc the weather sucks which makes you depressed and forces you to get creative = formula for good art. Same with the Pacific Northwest. Seattle had like half of all good ‘90s bands. Throw in Minnesota too (Dylan and Prince) and you have like 80% of all the best music over past 70yrs
Eric Balchunas@EricBalchunas
Thesis: Crap weather making you depressed and forcing you to get creative is why a disproportionate amt of amazing music has come from Seattle, the UK and Minnesota. At least half of all the best stuff comes from those three places.
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The Keith Richards bio provides some useful insights. They were essentially baby boomers but unlike in US grew up in post-war Britain with a parent class still shocked by WW2. Deprivation, bombed-out buildings to repair, unimaginable loss, etc. Add to that a lot less stigma to black blues artist influences. Put that all together you have a recipe for some serious youth rebellion in form of the best music that has ever been made.
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Yes, the reason there were so many excellent British bands in the late '60s through 80s is in fact known. It all goes back to the British blues revival of the early 1960s, sparked by a series of seminal tours that exposed young British musicians to towering figures from the Delta and Chicago blues traditions.
These bluesmen were at the time underappreciated in the United States where they had come from, and had almost no influence on American popular music of the period.
But British musicians caught the fire. Then they took it back across the Atlantic in a form that was amplified, improved, and turned up to 11. And proceeded to completely transform American rock music, pulling it much closer to Chicago electric blues and away from the more country-influenced idiom that we now call rockabilly.
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@nic_carter Not only quantity, but the Mount Rushmore of rock acts are probably exclusively British - Radiohead, Beatles, Zepplin, Stones (maybe an argument for the Beach Boys), honorable mention to Bowie.
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And the run didn’t end there. You still had unbelievable British rock acts in the 90s and 00s..
Radiohead
Coldplay
Muse
Oasis
Blur
Gorillaz
My bloody valentine
Massive attack
Arctic monkeys
Kasabian
Keane
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Has anyone ever convincingly explained why Britain was the absolute center of the rock universe in the 60s and 70s and still punched way above its weight in the 80s? The chokehold it had on music culture was just remarkable
60s and 70s:
The Beatles
The Stones
Pink Floyd
Led Zeppelin
Genesis
Yes
Queen
ELO
The Who
The Kinks
Black Sabbath
Supertramp
Eric Clapton
Moody Blues
King Crimson
David Bowie
80s:
The Smiths
New Order
The Cure
The Police
Duran Duran
Dire Straits
Tears for Fears
Iron Maiden
Joy Division
For a relatively small country going through post empire decline the cultural output was just remarkable
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