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Exploring the wilderness ⛺ 📸 Contemplating the cosmos 🔭⚛️ Likely overconsuming sugar.

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@ReidGower
Reid Gower
6 months
Prompt: a candid video of a very short man wearing a yellow shirt walking through a busy New York street yelling “you’re ugly” at cars as they drive by
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@ReidGower
Reid Gower
6 months
Some prompts are too long - Preview: In rural Ireland, circa 1860s, two women, their long, modest dresses of homespun fabric whipping gently in the strong coastal wind, walk with determined strides across a windswept cliff top. The ground is carpeted with wildflowers in muted...
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Reid Gower
6 months
Prompt: A close up in a smooth, slow pan focuses intently on diced onions hitting a scorching hot pan, instantly creating a dramatic sizzle. Audio: distinct sizzle.
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Reid Gower
6 months
Above prompt. Wild implications...
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Reid Gower
6 months
The prompt on this one is wild (captioned below). How far away are AI generated films?
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6 months
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Reid Gower
6 months
Prompt: a man doing stand up comedy in a small venue tells a joke (include the joke in the dialogue)
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Reid Gower
6 months
Here are some examples of the latest Google's AI videos (Veo 3). I'm speechless. The uncanny valley appears to be at least bridged, and soon to be crossed. Feels like a weird watershed moment. All of these videos are made completely from AI.
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@ReidGower
Reid Gower
1 year
Appreciated your episode w/ Rutt, ordered the book and will seek more when it arrives. Thanks, cheers!
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Reid Gower
1 year
Does this have to do with the "identity" of the organism (human) being something like social/ecological? Meaning, the viability of "the organism" grows to encompass a distributed social web? Or does this have more to do with "value"? Curious how you would language this...
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@ReidGower
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2 years
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@AskYatharth
yatharth ༺༒༻
2 years
whatever is the first thing you reach for in the morning, that's what you co-regulate with
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@JakeOrthwein
Jake Orthwein
3 years
@Meaningness
David Chapman
3 years
📄 Abolish peer review: first outright call I’ve encountered to simply drop it. It doesn’t work, it’s hugely wasteful, it’s worse than nothing, it can’t be fixed—writes @a_m_mastroianni.
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@ReidGower
Reid Gower
3 years
Succinct summary on the state of A.I. and Humanity - "Society is not ready for a step function inflection in our ability to costlessly produce anything connected to text. Human morality does not move that quickly, and it’s not obvious how we now catch up." @pkedrosky
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@DrJohnVervaeke
Dr John Vervaeke
3 years
This first episode of After Socrates will officially be released on January 9th 2023!!
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@ReidGower
Reid Gower
3 years
If Queen Woke and King Anti-Woke love each other, maybe we all can too ❤️💕 https://t.co/V5aibAcyGm
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Reid Gower
3 years
"Listen to what your gut says" = "Highly ruminative individuals with depression exhibit abnormalities in the neural processing of gastric interoception." Fascinating when science lends supports to woo 🪄🔮
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@MattPirkowski
Matthew Pirkowski
3 years
Egregorian Chants: Emergent Harmonies Within the Twitter Spheres.
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@VitalikButerin
vitalik.eth
4 years
The largest consequence of Elon taking over Twitter may well be not any specific policy decision he makes, but rather the morale effect of his supporters feeling emboldened and his detractors feeling like they are arguing on enemy territory. This is happening already.
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@Tradermayne
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3 years
Down millions but still gotta vibe.
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