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But the real leap came once traders replaced themselves with algorithms capable of aggregating data from all the trading platforms and executing high-frequency trades at a rate and volume beyond the cognitive capacity of hundreds of human beings. These derivatives markets quickly outpaced the traditional trading activity on the stock market. Derivatives trading became so dominant that the New York Stock Exchange was actually purchased by its derivatives exchange in 2013. The stock market—already an abstraction of the real marketplace—was swallowed by its own abstraction.
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
Using parameters and seeds in DALL-E 3 is a gamechanger.
It allows you to easily modify generated images, and instantly change image ratio settings.
Here's a quick guide on how to do it directly in ChatGPT: https://t.co/ewT3F4KYqw
Tweets From Rowan Cheung
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AI, and computationalism, in general, imposes that hegemony, insisting that all meanings can be communicated, and everything can be represented as data. But from the Kantian perspective, “the ideal of communication, of making oneself completely understood socially, requires the social acknowledgement of what cannot be made explicit in communication.” What is forgotten in reification must be retained or restored. “We have art,” Bernstein suggests, “because our ordinary communications fail to communicate what is most important to us.”
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
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