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Andre Vacha

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  • AI agents in community life
    Edge City’s Request for Experiments - by Timour Kosters
  • The Agent Village is a persistent multi-agent simulation embedded in village life, exploring what happens when AI agents take on real coordination roles in a community.
    Edge City’s Request for Experiments - by Timour Kosters
  • Decentralized Hardware / Local Community Netwo
    Gmail
  • Action-driven animation elevates the connections between the views to become the plots of the storytelling arhcs. In other words, what took you between state and A and state B? In our Email app, you can get between state A (composing visible) and state B (composing hidden) in at least two different ways: sending an email or discarding an email and closing the window.
    Meaningful Motion with Action-Driven Animation | Tobias Ahlin
  • Meaningful motion is about clear and engaging storytelling, and we can apply action-driven animation to remind ourselves when we’re straying from that path.
    Meaningful Motion with Action-Driven Animation | Tobias Ahlin
  • Are you simply transitioning between states, or are you visualizing actions?
    Meaningful Motion with Action-Driven Animation | Tobias Ahlin
  • Regardless of the intent of the animation, when animations fail to be meaningful, a common cause is that they simply tween between their hidden and visible states, rather than visualizing the actions that triggered the change of state.
    Meaningful Motion with Action-Driven Animation | Tobias Ahlin
  • AI, approached mindfully, can serve as a mirror that clarifies our deepest longings and opens pathways to more genuine intimacy with one another.
    The AI Middle Way - by Daniel Thorson - The Intimate Mirror
  • It’s a system you can only really understand when you use it seriously for a long time, such that you feel the push and pull to impose certain conventions that make the available actions help you around your growing body of work.
    Recreating the Canon Cat document interface - Little Lab
  • The real problem with Indian Design is the lack of documented references, history, and case-studies; and an overall underrated concept of critique and critical discourse. Art criticism has picked up its pace in India, and it’s time that Design gets its due as well.
    Indian Graphic Design?. What do we mean when we say ‘Indian’… | by Amogh Bhatnagar | Medium
  • Taj Mahal tea and Nescafe Sunrise coffee are branded and advertised in India. Both are owned by International Conglomerates, and targeted specifically at an Indian audience, at more or less similar price points, yet we see a sharp divide in the narratives they both portray. Neither tea nor coffee is native to India, and yet both of these products feel equally at home in an Indian household regardless of the idea od “indian-ness” that is portrayed in their respective branding.
    Indian Graphic Design?. What do we mean when we say ‘Indian’… | by Amogh Bhatnagar | Medium
  • The Lota in design discourse is probably more of a legacy that The Eames inadvertently left us when they also left behind the blessing/curse that is a design education framework rooted so deeply in modernism that it’s almost shocking that its foundations lie in something so inherently pluralistic as the Lota.
    Indian Graphic Design?. What do we mean when we say ‘Indian’… | by Amogh Bhatnagar | Medium
  • The art of the Warli tribe, Truck painting motifs, or even pictures of certain deities are now seen through the commercially co-opted visuals that surround us. This might look “Indian” at first sight, but what is this idea of India actually even representing? The “too kitsch” problem is not about visuals that are “too Indian”; it’s got more to do with the commercially co-opted idea of Indian-ness.
    Indian Graphic Design?. What do we mean when we say ‘Indian’… | by Amogh Bhatnagar | Medium
  • In the end we identify anything that is “too indian” as kitsch…”
    Indian Graphic Design?. What do we mean when we say ‘Indian’… | by Amogh Bhatnagar | Medium
  • I can understand how lotuses, peacocks and Devanagari alphabets have occupied this space in our collective consciousness as nationalist symbols
    Indian Graphic Design?. What do we mean when we say ‘Indian’… | by Amogh Bhatnagar | Medium
  • corporeal. Contrary to intuition, the way to better technology is through the body, because we do not leave our body behind when we log on. We may be striving to create a nourishing digital condition for ourselves, but it will always be informed by what’s happening on the ground. The place of technology in our lives begins and ends with the place where we find ourselves.
    Frank Chimero · The Good Room
  • No matter what the technology, the goal is to cater to our most primary spiritual need: to embody ourselves in the landscape, illuminate our awareness of what is around us, and to encourage us along in the daily practice of discovering our place in the family of life.
    Frank Chimero · The Good Room
  • Across the board, they were programs for people instead of programs for computers. The software was merely an assistive device to help people more easily follow the program. It was technology in its best role: as a sidekick for personal application.
    Frank Chimero · The Good Room
  • Let’s start with the apps people regret: Grindr, Candy Crush, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Tinder, Instagram, Snapchat—generally the apps we resort to out of boredom, desperation, or loneliness
    Frank Chimero · The Good Room
  • I started thinking about what could be considered spiritual technology in a secular sense to help me decide what technology stays and what goes from my life. A few examples came to mind, ranging from small acts like lighting a candle to larger practices like yoga or meditation. The obvious deficiency was that nothing I identified involved screens, which is a bit problematic if you’re searching for ways to add some soul to technology
    Frank Chimero · The Good Room
  • Within it was a particularly damning graph sharing the percentage of teens who report hanging out with friends two or more times per week since 1976. Rates were steady around 80 percent up until the mid-90s, when a subtle decrease began to occur. Then, in 2008 — one year after the release of the first iPhone — the decrease became much more dramatic. It has continued falling sharply since, hovering now at just under 60 percent of teens who spend ample time with friends each week.
    It's Obviously the Phones - by Magdalene J. Taylor
  • The theoretical basis comes from embodied cognition – the notion that our minds rely on bodily interaction with the environment to understand and solve problems. Early prototypes like metaDESK explored augmenting a desk with sensors and projectors so that physical objects (phicons – physical icons) could represent digital data, and moving them would invoke computational events 3dvar.com 3dvar.com . For instance, on the metaDESK a small model of a building placed on the table would cause a map to appear under it, and moving the model would pan the map 3dvar.com . Another example was Phantom Pho…
    Alternative HCI Paradigms Analysis
  • There’s also a loss of sense of ownership/control – with folders, a user decides where things live; with a stream, the system just puts it chronologically, which can feel like giving up control of organization
    Alternative HCI Paradigms Analysis
  • file’s name or its topic but not when it was created, a chronological view is not directly helpful. Hierarchical or tag-based systems allow multiple access paths (e.g. by subject, by type). Lifestreams proponents expected search to fill this role (just search the stream), but in the mid-90s, desktop search and content indexing were primitive.
    Alternative HCI Paradigms Analysis
  • A pure chronological list can become overwhelming when the volume of items is large. For a user with thousands of files and messages, a single list could stretch forever. Finding something “sometime last year” might require a lot of scrolling or a precise search query – effectively trading one kind of search (navigating folders) for another (remembering keywords or approximate dates). Users often do like to categorize and group related items together, but a date-based ordering will intermix everything by time. Lifestreams relied on users using search and filtering to narrow down, but if those …
    Alternative HCI Paradigms Analysis
  • nvesting surplus resources in expectation of a greater yield the coming harvest. And people developed methods to time those measures so as to maximize its output or, with another word, to profit. In short, by refraining from consuming resources immediately and determining the optimal conduct for future yields, humans had developed a new way of production. Sounds familiar? Just wait.
    How to Outcompete Capitalism? - Metamoderna
  • A tale of how different forms of capital have shaped our behaviors and how technological advances have turned the dynamics and mechanisms of the economy upside down.
    How to Outcompete Capitalism? - Metamoderna
  • Money is merely a crude measure of evaluating the worth of someone’s actions in relation to someone else, and what we see as “actual” work is merely a social construct, a convention and definition of what is considered to be actions creating economic value for others – in our day and age usually the kind of actions by which a monetary exchange takes place.
    How to Outcompete Capitalism? - Metamoderna
  • Economy is about the management of our time and attention. Money and work are just abstractions and surface phenomena of these two much more fundamental aspects.
    How to Outcompete Capitalism? - Metamoderna
  • they are better at getting and keeping the precious attention of others, more likely to be listened to. And their ability to gain the attention of others will make them increasingly more powerful in the future, to an extent that they will finally dominate the economy.
    How to Outcompete Capitalism? - Metamoderna
  • This is because they have large amounts of cultural capital. In the future this form of capital, not money capital, will be at the center of the economy. The ones who have large amount of cultural capital are able to exchange it at ever more favorable exchange rates; that means getting other forms of capital in large quantities for a smaller quantity of their precious cultural capital.
    How to Outcompete Capitalism? - Metamoderna
  • This is the positive feedback loop. Organized violence could be exchanged for other forms of capital such as food, money, social status etc. – and who doesn’t want to be friends with the warrior chief himself!
    How to Outcompete Capitalism? - Metamoderna
  • Can’t buy friend you say? Well, why do rich people usually have a lot of people they call their friends, while bums on the street tend to be all alone? Capital attracts other capital, and if you have a lot of one kind it’s easier to get the other kinds you need.
    How to Outcompete Capitalism? - Metamoderna
  • The number of friends and contacts, and the quality of those relations, can give you many advantages; in fact, it’s almost impossible to accumulate other forms of capital without it. With social capital you can ask someone favors you otherwise would have paid for, for example make a good friend help you move; and if you have many friends and contacts other people are more inclined to want to know you simply because you know “everyone”.
    How to Outcompete Capitalism? - Metamoderna
  • Remember, capital has the quality that one form of it can be exchanged for another. Being fit and beautiful can potentially give you a movie career and the social capital gained from that can sometimes even be exchanged for political capital – and, not least, a lot of money capital as well.
    How to Outcompete Capitalism? - Metamoderna
  • Capital must have some kind of psychological lure or desirability. There must be something we can fetishize, something we can crave, possess, call our own, and/or be possessed by. Otherwise it won’t do anything and thus it cannot be capital.
    How to Outcompete Capitalism? - Metamoderna
  • The positive feedback loop means that you tend to get more of it once you have a certain amount; it creates an advantage from which you can get more of the same or more of something similar.
    How to Outcompete Capitalism? - Metamoderna
  • capital, it is: Something that creates a positive feedback loop, which changes social relations, so that power is accumulated, for the person or organization to which the feedback loop is linked.
    How to Outcompete Capitalism? - Metamoderna
  • This is the first time a species is giving birth to another species, and we must act accordingly, treating AI like a child and raising it with care.
    Exploring Consciousness at Edge Esmeralda - by jane gatsby
  • Popular views on alignment misunderstand the assignment as they assume that “the good” is an clear, concrete, and operationalizable objective rather than something that is complex and ever-changing—the Tao that can be named is not the Tao
    Exploring Consciousness at Edge Esmeralda - by jane gatsby
  • The exercise consisted of us lying on our backs in a yoga studio, palms and mouths open, body relaxed, and cycling breath between a “vibrant inhale and effortless exhale” while a playlist energized the room. Within minutes I found myself in shockingly psychedelic territory. A few more and the entire room was laughing, crying, and writhing intuitively as our bodies worked to release whatever blockages have been stored. At the end of the hour we were radiant, teary-eyed and profoundly relaxed—softening and surrendering into our somatic sensations had caused an outpour of subconsciously compresse…
    Exploring Consciousness at Edge Esmeralda - by jane gatsby
  • You can’t get joy back without letting everything else back in too. You can’t have gratitude without experiencing sadness
    Exploring Consciousness at Edge Esmeralda - by jane gatsby
  • Learning to sit, allow, and absorb instead of endlessly generating is not something modernity encourages or rewards. Meditation has the ability to radically reduce suffering, increase our sense of purpose, and strengthen the bonds we have with others. Yet medical research on the subject is near zero, and many people (such as myself) are aware of the benefits but still fail to integrate the practice into their daily habits. Why?
    Exploring Consciousness at Edge Esmeralda - by jane gatsby
  • It should come as no surprise that in our attempts to understand consciousness, various paths will lead to similar places. The fact that this system shares structural traits with ancient wisdom suggests that it’s pointing to something true. Just as energy healers will talk about chakras being over or under charged, so too can certain levars be over or under active within individuals. Too much or too little focus on any of them will create negative feedback loops and a sense of dis-ease.
    Exploring Consciousness at Edge Esmeralda - by jane gatsby
  • Levar #1 is pure sensation—being in the absolute and simplest sense. It is unstructured wakefulness, a neuron firing, a light turning on. Levar #2 emerges as these binary signals compound into flows of perception and pattern detection. Distinct qualia arise along a continuum of longing and resistance. The subjective experience of jellyfish and plants likely exist on this dimension. Levar #3 is where these flows develop into an organizing structural principle. A unique perspective and sense of self arises that creates a 3D model of the body and its relationship to the world. This is the conscio…
    Exploring Consciousness at Edge Esmeralda - by jane gatsby
  • Using a publicly available dataset collected through the ‘PersonalityCafe’ forum, this paper found that GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 were able to perfectly classify 73% and 76% of the sample's personality type, respectively, simply by analyzing an individual's 50 most recent tweets—a level which is significantly better than random guessing and other machine learning models.
    Artificial Intelligence and Personality: Large Language Models’ Ability to Predict Personality Type - Max Murphy, 2024
  • Using a publicly available dataset collected through the ‘PersonalityCafe’ forum, this paper found that GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 were able to perfectly classify 73% and 76% of the sample's personality type, respectively, simply by analyzing an individual's 50 most recent tweets—a level which is significantly better than random guessing and other machine learning models
    Artificial Intelligence and Personality: Large Language Models’ Ability to Predict Personality Type - Max Murphy, 2024
  • Fours’ mantra becomes “I am myself. Nobody understands me. I am different and special,” while they secretly wish they could enjoy the easiness and confidence that others seem to enjoy.
    Enneagram Type 4: The Individualist - The Enneagram Institute
  • possessing special, one-of-a-kind gifts, but also as uniquely disadvantaged or flawed. More than any other type, Fours are acutely aware of and focused on their personal differences and deficiencies.
    Enneagram Type 4: The Individualist - The Enneagram Institute
  • unlike other human beings, and consequently, that no one can understand them or love them adequately
    Enneagram Type 4: The Individualist - The Enneagram Institute