Painter / Understander - Aesthetic Champion
San Francisco, CA
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This is an almost universal problem living in a world where information is so easy to access.
So many people have awareness of the concepts, but very few have the experience to pin down those ideas in reality
Without the balance of conceptual knowledge and experiential knowledge, they have nothing
“Meaning Crisis” people are confused. There are two types of meaning: experiential and narrative.
Experiential is the felt sense that life flows with meaning. You get it through consistently sleeping well, exercising, *play*, connecting with loved ones, entering flow, releasing addictions, and meditation. Narrative meaning you get from having a coherent story of your life and why it’s important, goals you’re moving toward, and knowledge of how your life relates to the cosmos.
Almost everyone I meet who is seeking meaning is seeking *narrative* meaning while neglecting experiential meaning. This is backwards. Experiential meaning obviates the need for most types of narrative meaning.
The actual skillset of any mystic should be weighed not by their ability to understand the concepts and symbols.
Drawing a map by itself does nothing
The real skill is finding where to pin it down in reality.
Where can you go when you follow the map you've drawn?
Watching this discourse on the same platform people laud $250,000,000 pay packages over four years for AI researchers literally and actually disgusts me.
The level of disdain for an artist trying to get the bag in this thread is mindboggling.
I wonder what it would look like if every artist simultaneously said:
Hey, fuck you, I won't do that for free? Would the entire world stop consuming art?
Or would artists just be able to live?
Is art important enough, that the race to the bottom would stop?
Looking for a place in SF is wild
Gotta move like a detective not to get your shit stolen by some jabroni
I keep thinking about this and I can't get over how brilliant it is.
Value is an entirely perceptual issue. When a resource is not being used, it sits in a weird value-superposition. Both worthless and worth whatever the consensus is, just collective hallucination based on circumstance.
Nothing is worth anything unless it is being used, actively.
It's so fresh that someone got creative with their footage from this event I put on with @SimularAI
It's so fun bringing some life to these kinds of events.
Pixels After Dark was my favorite event of Tech Week. Machines learning to act, artists making work in the room, and a question I keep returning to: who gets to tell the story?
A field film about community and becoming the author of my own work. @SimularAI
This is an extremely important distinction, and the path toward the space elevator is so unique to you that nobody could ever draw you a map.
Had a great chat with Stewart earlier on Crazy Wisdom.
I gave @1stSnub a curve ball question which was "do you think creativity is unbounded?"
his answer was great