De myth ology
@demythology.bsky.social
Specifist. Explanations fade: effects of words+stories (& A.I.)
Bypassing explanatory collapse with direct perception —
post-storytelling analog neuromedia dev.
Bypassing explanatory collapse with direct perception —
post-storytelling analog neuromedia dev.
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De myth ology
@demythology.bsky.social
· Nov 21
On Sept 19 at Gyuri Buzsaki and Ipshita Zutshi's invite I gave a talk at NYU "Cinema as proto-affordance language — spatial syntax" and Ang Lee joined me.
It was a wonderful step bridging the arts and sciences and will lead to a post-narrative, post-lexical format that bypasses our age of disinfo.
It was a wonderful step bridging the arts and sciences and will lead to a post-narrative, post-lexical format that bypasses our age of disinfo.
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New study finds that nostalgic memories become more bittersweet over time
New study finds that nostalgic memories become more bittersweet over time
Nostalgic memories may not age as sweetly as once thought. A new study finds that while nostalgic events initially feel uplifting, they grow more bittersweet over time—losing positivity and gaining regret and loneliness, challenging assumptions about nostalgia’s emotional stability.
www.psypost.org
May 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
New study finds that nostalgic memories become more bittersweet over time
Welcome to the future
May 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Welcome to the future
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If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...
May 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...
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How is it that people are so suspicious regarding basic scientific findings, but are fully confident about legendary stories alleged to have occured millenia ago?
November 29, 2024 at 1:59 AM
How is it that people are so suspicious regarding basic scientific findings, but are fully confident about legendary stories alleged to have occured millenia ago?
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“Thank you again. Thank you again. Won’t forget it,” Trump says while shaking the hand of Supreme Court Justice John Roberts after the State of the Union.
March 5, 2025 at 5:18 AM
“Thank you again. Thank you again. Won’t forget it,” Trump says while shaking the hand of Supreme Court Justice John Roberts after the State of the Union.
February 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
"Racism substituted myth for reality; and the world that it created with its stereotypes, virtues and vices, was a fairytale world, which dangled a utopia before the eyes of those who longed for a way out of the confusion of modernity and the rush of time.
January 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"Racism substituted myth for reality; and the world that it created with its stereotypes, virtues and vices, was a fairytale world, which dangled a utopia before the eyes of those who longed for a way out of the confusion of modernity and the rush of time.
Now, daily proof narratives are dinosaurs that walk among us.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Paul Schrader Says He Asked ChatGPT for Film Ideas and They Were All ‘Original’ and ‘Fleshed Out’: ‘Why Should Writers Sit Around for Months’ When ‘AI Can Provide One in Seconds?’
Paul Schrader is sounding off in support of using ChatGPT to come up with ideas for films.
variety.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Now, daily proof narratives are dinosaurs that walk among us.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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Video models != world models
"We find that across a range of current models (Sora, Runway, Pika, Lumiere, Stable Video Diffusion, and VideoPoet), physical understanding is severely limited, and unrelated to visual realism"
arxiv.org/abs/2501.09038
"We find that across a range of current models (Sora, Runway, Pika, Lumiere, Stable Video Diffusion, and VideoPoet), physical understanding is severely limited, and unrelated to visual realism"
arxiv.org/abs/2501.09038
Do generative video models learn physical principles from watching videos?
AI video generation is undergoing a revolution, with quality and realism advancing rapidly. These advances have led to a passionate scientific debate: Do video models learn ``world models'' that disco...
arxiv.org
January 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Video models != world models
"We find that across a range of current models (Sora, Runway, Pika, Lumiere, Stable Video Diffusion, and VideoPoet), physical understanding is severely limited, and unrelated to visual realism"
arxiv.org/abs/2501.09038
"We find that across a range of current models (Sora, Runway, Pika, Lumiere, Stable Video Diffusion, and VideoPoet), physical understanding is severely limited, and unrelated to visual realism"
arxiv.org/abs/2501.09038
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Now listening to a great episode of @weirdstudiesphil.bsky.social inspired by this amazing letterboxd list which tries to define a new genre that happens to includes a ton of my favorites:
letterboxd.com/comrade_yui/...
letterboxd.com/comrade_yui/...
neo-expressionism: the forgotten studio style
the rise and fall of analog anti-naturalism: beginning in the late 70s, many films, especially hollywood genres, began to move away from the focus on verisimilitude and location-shooting that became p...
letterboxd.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Now listening to a great episode of @weirdstudiesphil.bsky.social inspired by this amazing letterboxd list which tries to define a new genre that happens to includes a ton of my favorites:
letterboxd.com/comrade_yui/...
letterboxd.com/comrade_yui/...
On Sept 19 at Gyuri Buzsaki and Ipshita Zutshi's invite I gave a talk at NYU "Cinema as proto-affordance language — spatial syntax" and Ang Lee joined me.
It was a wonderful step bridging the arts and sciences and will lead to a post-narrative, post-lexical format that bypasses our age of disinfo.
It was a wonderful step bridging the arts and sciences and will lead to a post-narrative, post-lexical format that bypasses our age of disinfo.
November 21, 2024 at 5:23 PM
On Sept 19 at Gyuri Buzsaki and Ipshita Zutshi's invite I gave a talk at NYU "Cinema as proto-affordance language — spatial syntax" and Ang Lee joined me.
It was a wonderful step bridging the arts and sciences and will lead to a post-narrative, post-lexical format that bypasses our age of disinfo.
It was a wonderful step bridging the arts and sciences and will lead to a post-narrative, post-lexical format that bypasses our age of disinfo.
The What If narrative simulation is evidence that all narratives are simulations: they're false, inaccurate models of reality.
The logic is pretty simple, reality is chaos and we use narratives as coping mechanisms to relate to the chaos. What are What Is, then? op-ed headlines from Nov 7 NY Times
The logic is pretty simple, reality is chaos and we use narratives as coping mechanisms to relate to the chaos. What are What Is, then? op-ed headlines from Nov 7 NY Times
November 9, 2024 at 4:13 PM
The What If narrative simulation is evidence that all narratives are simulations: they're false, inaccurate models of reality.
The logic is pretty simple, reality is chaos and we use narratives as coping mechanisms to relate to the chaos. What are What Is, then? op-ed headlines from Nov 7 NY Times
The logic is pretty simple, reality is chaos and we use narratives as coping mechanisms to relate to the chaos. What are What Is, then? op-ed headlines from Nov 7 NY Times
What is remarkable is it took journalism x # of years after Lippmann to finally begin saying a new framework is is required to describe what is happening.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is
What’s happening in America today is something darker than a misinformation crisis.
www.theatlantic.com
October 17, 2024 at 1:01 PM
What is remarkable is it took journalism x # of years after Lippmann to finally begin saying a new framework is is required to describe what is happening.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...