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Plastic Plants Are Brutalism at Its Worst: A Critique of Hyperreality, Fetishism, and Institutional Control
Brutalism, an architectural style once celebrated for its stark honesty, material integrity, and functional design, has long inspired both admiration and scorn. Originally conceived as a democratic movement to create utilitarian, accessible spaces, Brutalism aimed to strip architecture to its bare essentials, often exposing raw concrete, steel, and glass. Yet today, the influence of Brutalism…
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Barbenheimer: The Beauty-Violence Nexus
Recently, two movies came out at the same time. These movies were Barbie and Oppenheimer. On the one hand, the brutal legacy of the greatest destructive power ever devised which was used to exterminate hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, ending the second world war. On the other hand, one of the most vacuous examples…
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Social Criticism
A new chapter for this site! This is something I’ve been working on for a long time and I’m excited to see it finally coming together. For almost two decades, I’ve been working on a generalized data abstraction and analysis platform which has expanded and contracted and drifted in scope but always been a central…
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Leveraging AI to Write a Zizekian Critique of Jordan Peterson and his Army of Incels
The point of this post is to explain how to effectively leverage large language models like GPT-3 or GPT-4 to write long-form text and narratives. This is not an intuitive process; you can’t just tell it to do your homework for you. You need to start by explaining the goal and asking it to create…
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Ask AI To Analyze My Memes And Make Better Ones Than Me
About I ask the AI to analyze the memes I have been making based on art from Stable Diffusion, Dall-E, Hypnogram, and other AI-based text-to-image generators. I ask GPT-3 to analyze the aesthetic and literary themes and deduce what I’m trying to accomplish, then generate a new list of prompts that does a better job…
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Ask AI Where Economic Value Comes From And How AI Can Help Create It
Make a concise list of the most fundamental methods for creating value in an economy, along with a brief one-sentence explanation of each including how it creates the gap between use value and exchange value that we call economic value. Exchange-value is the quantitative aspect of value, as opposed to “use-value” which is the qualitative…
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Ask AI How To Analyze Infections Disease Data
Here the AI really shines. It provides an excellent analysis of the relative benefits and limitations of various analytic techniques for looking at esoteric data. The bold parts are the prompts, and the rest is from the AI. Moving Average Objective: Analyze whether a given analytic method is a good technique for looking at…
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Ask AI To Create An Ontologically Complete Model Of Everything
Prompt To AI Our objective is to create a universal abstraction of ideas which allows us to map a claim about reality through all of its implied premises, back to the list of irreducible fundamental assumptions upon which the claim relies. This becomes part of a larger family tree of ideas and claims, and allows…
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Ask AI To Explain Bad Patriarchal Bargains And Faking Realness For Profit
The parts in bold are the prompts. The rest was written by the AI. A person who has moved heaven and earth to build a kind of career around doing whatever it takes to get as much attention as possible in order to earn trivial sums at the margin (just enough to barely scrape by),…
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Chaotic Good Does Not Mean Chaotic Nice
Prompt To AI The original version of D&D (1974) allowed players to choose among three alignments along a spectrum when creating a character: lawful, implying honor and respect for society’s rules; chaotic, implying rebelliousness and individualism; and neutral, seeking a balance between the extremes. The 1977 release of the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set introduced…
