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AI and Skill Erosion
Eccles Tower Erosion If you use a particular technology on a daily basis, as I have with AI music for the past two years, it begins to shape your way of working: You find it enjoyable, creative, and "generative" (in the traditional sense--where one idea is creating others), but there's continuous "background hum" of doubt about it, or is another example of "aesthetic erosion", where
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“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.”
― The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education
― The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education
“Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
― Selected Writings
― Selected Writings
“In art we do not make things any simpler by making simpler things. Reduction does not yield certainty, but something like its opposite, which is ambiguity and multi-valence.”
― Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock
― Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock
“Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”
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