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1. alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts (alxd@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 07:38:28 JST alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts

   @dudenas thank you!

   The hieroglyph is from Neal Stephenson's Innovation Starvation (I must have forgotten to link it!): https://www.wired.com/2011/10/stephenson-innovation-starvation/

   As I mentioned in my essay, a lot of books, movies and games are not incentivized to creat hieroglyphs. I think this tree chopping shot was just a nod to #minecraft, not a new #solarpunk proposal.

   Speaking #games, I think only Disco Elysium brought a fresh set of symbols in the recent years, and we can see how that is going for them...

   • alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts (alxd@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 07:38:26 JST alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts

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     @dudenas Recently I discussed an interesting aspect of #AI, #neuralnetworks and #chatgpt with a friend:

     What if instead of using them to generate things, we use them to map their training datasets, our popculture? If something is impossible to imagine for a network, it might be too alien for most of the readers.

     This could help us create #solarpunk hieroglyphs that stick: making them just out of reach, but not too far out there.

     Im not yet sure how to explore this venue...

   • alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts (alxd@writing.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Mar-2023 07:38:27 JST alxd ✏️ solarpunk prompts

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     @dudenas I dont have that article on hand, but from what I remember, Disco Elysium was an art project first and a game later, not expecting a huge commercial success.

     I think it became such a big hit only thanks to this huge risk, proposing something fresh, wholly new, without corporate oversight and managerial meddling. It could easily have been too alien though.

     alcinnz repeated this.