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Pastiche is, like parody, the imitation of a peculiar or unique, idiosyncratic style, the wearing of a linguistic mask, speech in a dead language.
Only art history would give you the vocabulary, the context and connections, a sense of what he calls the “possibility space.” Plus, “if society is extremely wealthy, there will be a status battle, and there will be jobs to do that are status-related,” he said. AI is “an order of magnitude” better at chess than Magnus Carlsen, he points out, but no one shows up to watch AI chess engines play each other, and more people are playing chess than ever before.
A Techno Optimist’s Guide to Raising Kids for the Age of AI
Benjamin Wallace
In Magritte’s text [*Bourgeoisie Art,*](https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/rene-magritte) the communist painter denounced too, “the capitalist hypocrisy of always refusing to take a thing for what it is”.
The Ghostchain. (Or taking things for what they are)
paletten.net
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