Quote Investigator btw is a great site for getting calibrated on just how often a) many people independently come up with a version of an idea b) how little it matters c) why it’s actually fine if Einstein and Gandhi between them get credit for saying basically everything first.
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It’s like increasing magnification without increasing resolving power. You end up with blurry or pixelated results. How do you complete the magic trick with such poor optics? The CSI Miami trick: “enhance!” This is the function of aesthetics and why I distrust aesthetics.
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Through interpolation and smoothing, aestheticization stretches a spoonful of reality detail over vastly more reality. The aesthetic filler creates the appearance of additional detail but it’s dead detail. Not capable of supplying brain calibration.
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So maybe textuality has a pseudosurprising amount of detail. Like pseudorandom. Which is perhaps why GPT-3 can fake it so well in textual worlds.
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