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The Permaweird with Venkatesh Rao

Interdependence

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The Importance of Subjectivity in Photography

Photography was a pursuit of science until the first Kodak cameras were released and then that kind of baseline of objectivity became a foundation upon which subjectivity could be built. Now people are figuring out how do we actually like Hollywood quality realistic AI-generated movies but now I think we'll go back to abstract photography once you've figured more stuff out, says Dolly Wong. The weirdness that comes before you kind of like pass the threshold of accurate objectivity so in a sense you have to like visit the zone of like objective accurate representation of like reality almost like an engineering test or challenge to prove that you've mastered new techniques on media.

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