You will never get a new, revolutionary, truly good sentence or work of art by seeking out the perfect middle of all known beliefs. It's why AI is flawed as a creative machine, and why governing to polls is futile.
We want new, beautiful, surprising things, politically, artistically, and otherwise.
We want new, beautiful, surprising things, politically, artistically, and otherwise.
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https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-has-grown-beyond-human-knowledge-says-googles-deepmind-unit/
https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3351
Centrists on most topics don't take risks due to fear of losing. So they try to optimize outcomes for the majority but end up losing out to risk seekers who *don't* fail.
Being mediocre is good for long term predictability/sustainability but loses out to extreme trial and error that allows failure.
Avoiding risk doesn't help to adapt and flourish but it minimizes loss.
The far right has been in the hinterland for decades, and has been desperate for gains.
“Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.”
Throwaway illustrations, sure.
But no matter how the pixels move around the ratio of dark to light remains flat. It can *only* produce mid.
Which is why everything is now so shit.
It's a huge red flag that the speaker hasn't ever done the thing they're talking about or advising someone else to do.