A digital work does not exist in the way a painting exists.
It is not present by default.
It does not persist perceptually on its own.
It must be executed.
On the Executable Work — 2026
https://t.co/yBVDd99eUy
@eli_schein@im_jonooo Feels like if the data is the conceptual core, then grounding it in a closed-loop market tied to the work defines a very specific conceptual space, given how many other signals a generative system could be built from.
Submitted a few seeds to @remnynt's Architectonica. Structurally interesting work that drifts between spatial coherence and collapse. The Consensus Curation model introduces a thoughtful form of distributed authorship. Curious to see how the final 250 land.
I just got this from Claude:
"It's not a bug you can fix. It's that Apple has been shipping a 10-year-old SVG renderer that the LBSE rewrite was supposed to replace, and that rewrite isn't fully on by default yet."
Execution-based artwork meets platform reality.
Honestly not yet well read on consciousness, but this passage from Neil Thiese’s Notes on Complexity gives a compelling reframing of the field consciousness question.
If transduction into local awareness is plausible, then machine sentience may require more than scaling intelligence or language models. We may first need to understand what kind of structure can function as an antenna at all.
We use rulers and compasses to allow humans to draw lines like computers and robots. We use randomness and feedback to allow computers and robots to draw lines like humans.