I love the GAN-generated images! I've been experimenting with similar tools myself lately, and it's pretty amazing what sort of results they can produce. I wonder, was this inspired by this recent...
I love the GAN-generated images! I've been experimenting with similar tools myself lately, and it's pretty amazing what sort of results they can produce.
I love and hate contemplating the size of the universe. Love, because it's vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big, and there's some awe and inspiration to be found in that. Hate, for the same reason, because of how infinitesimally meaningless everything I've ever known becomes in that context. I'm not exaggerating when I say Carl Sagan's "pale blue dot" monologue may be the most important thing humanity has yet produced.
David Chapman wrote about the cosmic meaningless thing. He thinks it's a rhetorical trick: [...] I like the computer-generated pictures and figuring out ways to visualize large numbers seems like...
If you imagine looking at things from a standpoint where, you are told, they look like X, then they will look like X in your imagination. If you stand behind a translucent red screen, everything will look red. Why would you choose to do that? You can also imagine “looking” at your life from another galaxy… but you are just making things up, guided by a voice that wants to throw you into despair.
As you pull away, an object appears to dwindle in size, but this is an illusion. Things don’t actually get smaller when you move away from them, and they don’t get less meaningful either.
Meaning depends on contexts and purposes. If you go to a place with no context and no purpose, there will be no meaning there, at least not until you’ve hung out for a while. But if you could teleport to a nice Italian restaurant in the Andromeda Galaxy for lunch, and return to Earth in time for your regular afternoon tryst with a coworker in the office broom closet, your life here would not look less meaningful when considered from your table at Osteria Andromeda.
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Significance is not an intrinsic property; it is a relationship. Something is significant only to somebody. It is true that the Andromeda Galaxy does not care about you. So what? You don’t care about it, either, unless you are an astro-geek.
I like the computer-generated pictures and figuring out ways to visualize large numbers seems like fun. I don't let the philosophical implications worry me. Everything is the same size it was before.
I love the GAN-generated images! I've been experimenting with similar tools myself lately, and it's pretty amazing what sort of results they can produce.
I wonder, was this inspired by this recent xkcd comic?
I love and hate contemplating the size of the universe. Love, because it's vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big, and there's some awe and inspiration to be found in that. Hate, for the same reason, because of how infinitesimally meaningless everything I've ever known becomes in that context. I'm not exaggerating when I say Carl Sagan's "pale blue dot" monologue may be the most important thing humanity has yet produced.
David Chapman wrote about the cosmic meaningless thing. He thinks it's a rhetorical trick:
[...]
I like the computer-generated pictures and figuring out ways to visualize large numbers seems like fun. I don't let the philosophical implications worry me. Everything is the same size it was before.