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Decoding Leonardo Da Vinci: The Creative Polymath

[The Prometheus Shot – E012 :: Decoding Leonardo Da Vinci: The Creative Polymath ]

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Banksy’s Courage: Street Art, Markets, and Disruption

[The Prometheus Shot – E010 :: Banksy’s Courage: Street Art, Markets, and Disruption ]

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Who is getting replaced by AI?

Who feels threatened by AI? Why would you feel that your job and livelihood is at risk when people use AI more (effectively saying it is more convenient / cheaper)?

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Miyazaki’s Worldly Wisdom: My Story Garden

[The Prometheus Shot – E006 :: Miyazaki’s Worldly Wisdom: My Story Garden ]

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Apple Crushed : Advertising , Brands , and Greatness

[The Prometheus Shot – E003 :: Apple Crushed : Advertising, Brands, and Greatness ]

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The Three-Body Problem : Knowledge & Creativity in Great Sci-Fi

[The Prometheus Shot – E002 :: The Three-Body Problem : Knowledge & Creativity in Great Sci-Fi ]

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Picasso & Guernica: Surprising, Creative, Great

[The Prometheus Shot – E001]

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On the Virtues of (extreme) Imagination & Creativity : Sci-Fi and Fantasy (can be) Practical !

Extreme Imagination and Creativity (as in Sci-Fi and Fantasy) can be practical. They are useful as inspiration, for education, and even as inputs into scientific and engineering processes.

Here are a few thoughts on that.

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Approximate Thinking and National Identities : I am <almost> Great !

Incompleteness, biases, Identities and Culture

How does culture morph from a force for understanding and creativity, into a limiting force that serves to inspire laziness and embolden BIRGERS? Approximate Thinking and Identities have an interesting relationship. The below discussion is based on sections from “Fuzzy on the Dark Side”.

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Zif’s Destiny : Building a miracle and Extreme Incompleteness

Or: ‘ A (seemingly) non-terminable task*

“The materials we have aren’t exactly made for the task either. All the rocks are so irregular, and this seems to be the cause of many mistakes and delays. The workers try to fit them as much as they can, but it doesn’t always work.”

Zif’s Destiny. (Fuzzy on the Dark Side)

This post is an excerpt from ‘Zif’s Destiny’ – an allegorical story that runs throughout ‘Fuzzy on the Dark Side‘, contemplating the dark effects of approximate thinking on a group of heroes, similar to famous historical and mythological figures…

Building a megastructure : Fuzzy on the Dark Side - Approximate Thinking & How the mists of creativity and progress can become a prison of illusion
Zif’s Destiny : The Mountain Tower