okay so it looks the the thesis is that we have an algorithm for copying aesthetics and it's called autoencoding lossless inputs=canon, feature function=worldview, projection function=mimesis more on what this means later in the paper
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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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ooo, this seems like a key thing. Would love to see if they chained things together, and did a "how much telephone is needed to fuck it up?" analysis
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