🧌✨The Nexialist #0113
🧌✨The Nexialist #0113
increments of global warming | sad and pale paper | [this tech is] killing me | armageddon-granny | solipsism v nonduality | so hard so hot | the stupidity of AI | the age of artificial creativity
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hey hey, i hope this e-mail finds you better than last week. this week in the nexialist you get a delicious mix climate change updates, of nice and crazy music and some AI tips. somehow it makes sense, and even if it doesn’t, i enjoy bring you content that might be confusing. read until the end for rabbit holes and nightmare material 🧌
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🌐increments of global warming
the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) released the final piece of their sixth assessment, totaling more than 8 thousand pages. it is a lot of material to read, so it’s always great to have someone summarize it. in this video, they do a summary of the summary of the summary, so i guess i cannot further summarize it. basically, they confirm human activity has already raised the average temperature, that some of the solutions/mitigations strategies are working and some are not, and that we still have time to act. also, they mention a new expression a few times:
But the report makes clear that there's no point at which we get to give up. Take extreme weather. With every additional increment of global warming, extreme weather gets worse. Or the flipside of that: every increment of global warming that we can avoid means avoiding people dying of these disasters. In fact, this idea that climate change is mostly incremental is so important that the report uses the phrase “increment of global warming” half a dozen times.
there is a synthesis you can download or the 1-hour presentation if you want more details.
🤑sad and pale paper
if you understand portuguese, the radio novela apresenta podcast is a must-listen. in this episode named black box, letícia leite shares the story of how an airplane crash in indigenous kayapó territory in brazil changed a whole region. after the crash, the local community asked for the crash site to become a sacred spot since the souls would be there. for that, they needed to relocate the entire community. also (spoiler alert) they found a way to explain to brazilian justice their spiritual principles, which somehow (and surprisingly) they understood. one thing that stood out for was the kayapó word for money, piukaprim (sorry if i’m spelling it wrong)
piukaprim = money
piu = paper, sheet
kaprim = pale, sad
money = sad paper
🌱[this tech is] killing me
this has been on repeat since spotify showed it to me. maybe i’m overthinking this, but these lyrics could be to our devices, especially after seeing this machine taken by plants. such a post-apocalyptic banger. press play and i dare you not to dance.
I need to find that thing to hold onto
I need to separate me and you
I need to find a way to the truthGet yourself off my mind
'Cause I'm tired of you in my head
I wanna feel alive
But you're killing me
You're killing me dead
🚜armageddon-granny
eurovision season is here and with that some fabulous and insane music. the song from croatia this year is just so incredibly random and unexpected, somehow poking fun at putin and his war machine. it feels like that would be playing on tv in a dystopian movie from the 90s. except it’s reality. the band is called let 3, and they’ve been around since the 80s.
🧠solipsism v nonduality
one of these links that was saved in my read later and came up this week, explaining two concepts i didn’t know much about. quite a philosophical take on micro and macrocosm.
Many confuse nonduality with solipsism. This is the belief that reality exists only inside your individual mind. According to solipsism, the only thing that is “real” in the entire world, is what is happening inside your brain. Everything (and everyone else) are simply avatars; illusions created by your imagination in the movie of your life. Sort of like the “Truman Show” on steroids.
Conversely, the nondual perspective does not suggest that reality only exists inside your individual mind. Instead, it assumes that everything exists in one larger mind. That everything is made of consciousness. And each individual mind is just one expression of that consciousness.
🦄so hard so hot
i can’t get enough of the ai videos (at least for now). i think we can say it’s already an iconic and defining aesthetic of our times. this one from alison goldfrapp is just so cool, well done and hypnotizing. and the song is just perfect. enjoy!
🤦the stupidity of AI
i know… i feel like this topic is coming up quite often in the nexialist, but it’s impossible to avoid it. i’ve been playing and working with it here and there for some weeks already, and i’m trying to follow everything that is happening. this read appeared a lot on my feed, and of course the title is already inviting: the stupidity of AI. james briddle starts saying: “artificial intelligence in its current form is based on the wholesale appropriation of existing culture, and the notion that it is actually intelligent could be actively dangerous.” read the whole thing to learn about prompt engineering, crungus (this nightmarish creature above that does not exist but AI made up), and how a maori community is using AI to save their language. i’ll share the last sentence (do not ready now if you want to read the whole piece)
The lesson of the current wave of “artificial” “intelligence”, I feel, is that intelligence is a poor thing when it is imagined by corporations. If your view of the world is one in which profit maximisation is the king of virtues, and all things shall be held to the standard of shareholder value, then of course your artistic, imaginative, aesthetic and emotional expressions will be woefully impoverished. We deserve better from the tools we use, the media we consume and the communities we live within, and we will only get what we deserve when we are capable of participating in them fully. And don’t be intimidated by them either – they’re really not that complicated. As the science-fiction legend Ursula K Le Guin wrote: “Technology is what we can learn to do.”
🧑🎤the age of artificial creativity
anne-laure le cunff from ness labs shared this list of ai applications and divided in in different creativities, explaining the potential for emerging tools: linguistic, musical, visual & artistic, scientific and other. i also loved this 2x2 matrix, giving a different perspective to look at it. also reminded me of the ai engine that finds ai: there’s an ai for that.
via michell zappa
see you next week, cute crungi (is that the plural for crungus?) 👹🧌
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