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This is indistinguishable from something that would be hanging in an art museum, and anyone pretending otherwise only believes so because they know a priori that it is generated by ML.
Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art | Hacker News
Your art has to be liked by children or it’s no good.
Damien Hirst - Alain Elkann Interviews
And you have to believe that the currency is art and not money. That is why people pay a lot of money for it.
Blossoming artist: Damien Hirst on returning to the studio, fluorescent florals and the 'muppets' in government | The Art Newspaper
You’ve got to just go with what you believe in because that’s going to be the best chance of making things that are going to work. Usually, if I think about people buying things, it goes wrong.
Blossoming artist: Damien Hirst on returning to the studio, fluorescent florals and the 'muppets' in government | The Art Newspaper
meditation and spiritual guidance. It is
How to understand art on the example of Mark Rothko
designed in the shape of an octagon inscribed in a Greek cross
How to understand art on the example of Mark Rothko
Today, being surprised a lot is often taken as a sign of stupidity, whereas in ancient Greece an owl was the bird of Athena, the goddess of wisdom. Because, obviously, an owl is always surprised, and surprise is the first step to understanding.
Why Russians do not smile (2002) | Hacker News
Directly via bailouts and indirectly via inflation, COVID was the biggest wealth transfer to the rich in history.
Booking.com gives €28m in bonuses to three top execs; Took €65m in State aid | Hacker News
humans do not enter a world which is inherently structured. We must give the world a structure which we ourselves create
Existential depression in gifted individuals | Davidson Institute
Freedom, in an existential sense, refers to the absence of external structure.
Existential depression in gifted individuals | Davidson Institute
death, freedom, isolation and meaninglessness
Existential depression in gifted individuals | Davidson Institute
happens once corporations start pro
TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it’s worth $70M | Hacker News
But it's a joke that makes some people millionaires.
TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it’s worth $70M | Hacker News
Dogecoin started as a joke and its worth billions today.
TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it’s worth $70M | Hacker News
Then the pandemic happened, and I watched how our so-called "civilization" handled it.
Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming | Hacker News
We recruit online for a group of people interested in founding a new virtual social network, a new city, and eventually a new country. We build the embryonic state as an open source project, we organize our internal economy around remote work, we cultivate in-person levels of civility, we simulate architecture in VR, and we create art and literature that reflects our values.
How to Start a New Country
Our idea is to proceed cloud first, land last
How to Start a New Country
on in public tenders by th
Streisand effect
The French intelligence agency DCRI's deletion of the French-language Wikipedia article about the military radio station of Pierre-sur-Haute[19] resulted in the article temporarily becoming the most-viewed page on the French Wikipedia.[20]
Streisand effect
to first dominate a specific niche and then scale to adjacent markets
Peter Thiel’s 7 best tips to identify businesses for long-term investing success - The Economic Times
he secret behind their rise was their ability to identify and eventually dominate an emerging market with little to no competition.
Peter Thiel’s 7 best tips to identify businesses for long-term investing success - The Economic Times
Love the art of investing Thiel believes investors should take the art of investing seriously and it should be the most important task they should focus on in their priority list.
Peter Thiel’s 7 best tips to identify businesses for long-term investing success - The Economic Times
independent thinking investor or entrepreneur can find market opportunities that turn into wealth generators. Thiel feels investors should have clarity in thoughts and base their decisions on facts and reasoning.
Peter Thiel’s 7 best tips to identify businesses for long-term investing success - The Economic Times
monopoly businesses both create and capture value
Peter Thiel’s 7 best tips to identify businesses for long-term investing success - The Economic Times
By looking for businesses that consistently underplay their monopoly status By looking for businesses that use their excess cash to invest for the future versus needing their excess cash to defend their margins.
Peter Thiel’s 7 best tips to identify businesses for long-term investing success - The Economic Times
building long-term durability
Peter Thiel’s 7 best tips to identify businesses for long-term investing success - The Economic Times
The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd, but to think for yourself
Peter Thiel’s 7 best tips to identify businesses for long-term investing success - The Economic Times
An investor has to find value in unexpected places
Peter Thiel’s 7 best tips to identify businesses for long-term investing success - The Economic Times
Companies with strong and ethical principles are a good bets to invest in
Peter Thiel’s 7 best tips to identify businesses for long-term investing success - The Economic Times
Second Life was trying to simulate the Metaverse in Snow Crash.
I'm the author of Cryptovoxels - AMA! : cryptovoxels
there were a few things that SL didn't do that I wanted to implement when I made Cryptovoxels: Web based Blockchain land ownership records Javascript scripting Voxel based building VR support
I'm the author of Cryptovoxels - AMA! : cryptovoxels
And in the decades after that, they will do almost everything, including making new scientific discoveries that will expand our concept of “everything.”
Moore's Law for Everything
In the next five years, computer programs that can think will read legal documents and give medical advice
Moore's Law for Everything
In the next decade, they will do assembly-line work and maybe even become companions
Moore's Law for Everything
They are exosuits. Today Vignesh wears Metakovan and Anand wears Twobadour
NFTs: The First 5000 Beeples - The Metapurser
Besides safety, here are some other features I've fallen in love with: - Algebraic Data Types - Pattern Matching - Type inference - A more ƒunctional and expressive style - Immutability by default - No header files (and no weird linking errors) - Module system resulting in very clean name spaces - An awesome standard package manager that makes it very easy to handle dependencies and share your own libs in seconds - One of the kindest internet communities I've come across (please visit mozilla's #rust or /r/rust if you're starting out and need any pointers)
Is Rust object oriented?
There’s a three-thousand-year cultural history of owning priceless works of art. Most people understand that an original Rothko is a high-status luxury good.
NFTs are a dangerous trap
It's exclusivity. This is just creating something exclusive purely to be exclusive. reply
Jack Dorsey is attempting to sell his first tweet as an NFT
At The International 2013 (a DotA tournament), in person viewers received "autographs" of the players that could attached to items in game. I told them on the Steam market place for almost $1,000.
Jack Dorsey is attempting to sell his first tweet as an NFT
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are like authentic works of art, except that their authenticity, contents, ownership, and provenance (including date of origin) are protected by strong cryptography, making forgeries impossible for all practical purposes.
Jack Dorsey is attempting to sell his first tweet as an NFT