i'm probably only going to actually read like 50 pages but still
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an aesthetic is some scheme of understanding such that a certain type of thing becomes very easy to describe you can "train" an aesthetic on just the canon and it'll work just as well as training it on the whole thing
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okay there's a bunch of stuff on modernism I lack the context to understand just gonna skim past this
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"ambient mood" is the sort of vibe or aesthetic or worldview a work embodies they're fake understandings of reality (standard map/territory stuff here) they can't be talked about directly, they're illegible and exist only as abstract patterns of sense-data
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Aesthetics have vocabularies, and these are what the autoencoders find
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multiple items sharing an aesthetic makes it easy to compare them, because you can do it using the terms of the aesthetic i.e. you already ran the dimensional reduction, so you know the important variables immediately
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we can define an aesthetic as a small number of transformations, that allow you to turn one item into another, with the set of things that can be created with these transformations being in the aesthetic
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okay thats all i got from reading this going to add "can read arcane academic papers" to the list of things i brag abouthttps://twitter.com/imhinesmi/status/1225907259219337219 …
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can you explain this a bit more? i’m not entirely clear on what ‘cognitive systems’ means in this context. (i also haven’t gotten to this point in the paper yet)
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A cognitive system is anything that thinks or does thinking-like things, i.e. people and autoencoders
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