New study finds that nostalgic memories become more bittersweet over time
21.05.2025 18:09
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New study finds that nostalgic memories become more bittersweet over time
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Copilot consumes Nadella’s life outside the office as well. He likes podcasts, but instead of listening to them, he loads transcripts into the Copilot app on his iPhone so he can chat with the voice assistant about the content of an episode in the car on his commute to Redmond. At the office, he relies on Copilot to deliver summaries of messages he receives in Outlook and Teams and toggles among at least 10 custom agents from Copilot Studio. He views them as his AI chiefs of staff, delegating meeting prep, research and other tasks to the bots. “I’m an email typist,” Nadella jokes of his job, noting that Copilot is thankfully very good at triaging his messages.
If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...
This era is the first and only scientific age of blockbusters where the cinematic craft, the effects and the underlying science are converging into a new language. 2001, Star Wars, The Shining, Altered States, these all jump started my search for a new lexicon past storytelling.
Altered States was first a book Chayefsky published in 1978 which he adapted from his partially completed screenplay and copius notes with Lilly. And every cool kid on the block had this two years before both Simon and the film version came out.
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?
How would an animal that's going extinct have free will? Or one trapped in a hurricane that will kill it etc? Free will is simply an absolute concept trapped in the arbitrary words that make it. It has no real relationship to biological events as any experiment dissolves where will becomes costly.
What if causality is a glass ceiling offered by conscious will, probably an illusion. And as Gopnik suggests causal explanations are addictions. What if the image suggests, we become stuck at the arbitrariness of causes and the word itself?
“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.
www.reddit.com/r/starwarsme...
Politics is narrative mindreading using arbitrary tools of cause & effect. Science is the escape from that rhetoric into correlational acausal reasoning. They are quite separable though they are not quite separate yet. This is the same problem with history, which is an illusion, and evolution (real)
It made the sun stand still and abolished change. All evil was blamed on the restless inferior races who lacked appreciation of the settled order of things."
— George L. Mosse, Towards the final solution: A history of European Racism (1978)
"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.
People don't understand what this is: when you can employ the full effect of arbitrary words and cause and effect (also arbitrary), eg calling the Jan 6 convicts "hostages", you control the arbitrary aspects of society like government, law.
Reality is specific, words are the farthest from this.
Now, daily proof narratives are dinosaurs that walk among us.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Digital is pre DNA, or sub-DNA. It's a synthetic regularity. It's a model, whereas nothing in reality is a model.
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
The question is why bother debunking, when both models, storytelling and engineering fundamentally distort our view of reality? Get rid of both modeling systems and start anew. Using them demonstrates humans are blind, and addicted to extracting value from causes, not gaining vision.
Explanations lacking causal connections are simple. They refer to chaos, fractal as conditions we must surf, rather than confront. ie: don't build here, if you do, randomize plots, placements. etc. Engineers and storytellers are all subject to causal connections, which preserve the initial mistakes.
Reality is simple, not complex. It's chaos. No cause and effect. Engineers (2-bitDavinci) and storytellers (ie conspiracy theorists) are different sides of the same coin, causal connections. Both use arbitrary means of gaining explanation.
We call that (from my POV) dinosaur thinking.
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/...
It's experimental 60s filmmaking meets New Hollywood.
Terminal Identity Bukataman and Plastic Reality Turnock explain this era as paraspatial, loss of identity in terms of space and body, the dissolving of boundaries.
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.
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
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...
