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Vermeer, Self-Driving Cars, the Gamesters of Triskelion, and Yayoi Kusama

Posted on December 6, 2019 by Michael Stiefel

A large rubber ball bounces into the street, the driver sees the ball, intuits that a child might follow, and stops the car. Automated vehicles are incapable of accomplishing the Continue ReadingVermeer, Self-Driving Cars, the Gamesters of Triskelion, and Yayoi Kusama→

Nietzsche, “Beyond Good and Evil”

"…just as little do we see a tree exactly and completely, in terms of leaves, twigs, color and form; it is so very much easier for us simply to improvise some approximation of a tree. Even in the midst of the strangest experiences we still do the same: we make up the major part of the experience, and can scarcely be forced not to contemplate some event as its “inventors”. All this means: from time immemorial we are – accustomed to lying. Or to put it more virtuously and hypocritically, in short, more pleasantly: one is much more of an artist than one knows."

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