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the final 80 pieces in the collection are derived from around 8,000 outputs, 1% or so making the cut there are also dozens of visually disparate pieces born from the same prompt - an inversion of the assumption I started with

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The author calls these post-rational reflections. Analogies with dreams and a subconscious are artistic interpretations, not technical descriptions of machine consciousness. Approximate output counts remain attributed estimates.

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    first one, "prompting the environment" is to do with the broad assumption that working with a neural network to generate images is about describing exactly what you want it to do, which is how I interfaced with it originally "a person on a…

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    one of the biggest reflections, in the same way you leave your house with a camera and don't know what you'll end up having the opportunity to photograph - the neural network as a medium can function like this but with an order of magnitude…

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    and in hindsight, a prompt is really describing the parameters of a dream, tapping into a subconscious mind much vaster than my own the best way to describe the process is something like "exporting frames" from a dream, then curating based…

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  4. 04 / Project: Visualize Value

    what began as black and white compositions explaining value mechanics evolved into blockchain projects using those same mechanics as their medium. pieces about consensus, immutability, and network effects became pieces powered by consensus,…

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  5. 05 / Project: Visualize Value

    2/ Pick a format Use creative constraint to make it easier to produce consistently and be consistently recognized. @visualizevalue assets are black and white vector depictions of high-leverage ideas. To go back to the fishing metaphor, use…

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  6. 06 / Editorial topic: Process

    "Hardware" exposes the fragility of physical authenticity systems by turning their visual cues into deliberate fictions.

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  7. 07 / Editorial topic: Medium

    did not intend to activate a zora coin but apparently happens automatically when you log into the ios app, which is a bit mental would like to have done something like this much more intentionally, but here we are

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  8. 08 / Editorial topic: Process

    transparency time lemonade stand a visualize value market simulator

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