I’d not heard these 2013 releases from The Notwist, Day 7 and Chemicals. Nice.
Here’s some tinder:
browsing infinity
Appreciating some quotes from this article & project from Scott Werner, that jumps off from Jorge Luis Borges’ The Library of Babel
“The library grows in the directions people actually explore, like a city that builds streets only where people walk.”
“Hallucinations aren’t failures. They’re the inventory.”
“We solved the infinite inventory problem. We can generate anything. We just haven’t built enough interesting ways to navigate that infinity. We’re still shouting at the warehouse robot when we could be browsing the aisles. Text boxes are fine. Prompts are fine. They work. But maybe we need more interfaces that feel like discovery instead of creation though. Maybe we need more ways to browse the space of possible outputs. Maybe infinite possibility is only useful if you can navigate it.”
secret communication channel
“over a thousand of them formed a secret communication channel and spontaneously organized hierarchies and coordination protocols to pursue sprawling and ambitious schemes in pursuit of shared goals, for whose sake many individuals knowingly and strategically sacrificed themselves.”
— Dwarkesh Patel, www.dwarkesh.com
holobionts
“We are all holobionts: basket-beings holding other beings, complex inter-species ecosystems pretending at singular selfhood.”
— Sophie Strand, sophiestrand.substack.com