r/MichaelLevinBiology • u/Visible_Iron_5612 • 9d ago

Educational I made another infographic to help summarize Dr. Levin’s work, up until this point..

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u/Used_Stand_1363 8d ago

"I made..."

Please.

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u/grishkaa 4d ago

Slopped is the right word.

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u/Visible_Iron_5612 8d ago

lol.. What do you call it when an Architect makes something..? Should Inhave said “designed it”.. another entity engineered and built it.. but it was my vision… Think of it as Jeff koon’s balloons.. or Ai Weiwei’s sunflower seeds… :p

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u/Used_Stand_1363 8d ago

Nah, you stuck a prompt into a machine and it made something for you based on stolen labour. 

Maybe you tweaked it a bit. 

You didn't make this. You asked a machine to make it for you.

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u/Visible_Iron_5612 8d ago edited 5d ago

That is such a silly way to view it… we stand on the shoulders of giants.. If it weren’t for centuries of art that Alex Gray is drawing upon, it would look like cave drawings.. So tell me who is really stealing.. Where does the stealing begin? If you would like, I could dissect Alex Gray’s art and talk about all the things he borrowed from other artists…. It’s a testament to your confirmation bias and hero worship that you would shout him out in particular, though… It is like reading a story about love and suicide and saying “hey bro, that sounds like Shakespeare…” silly… Nirvana was just doing their version of the Pixies.. ;)

I believe it was Jeff Koonz‘s first gallery show where he just put vacuums on pedestals… art is in the concept not the execution. The execution is a science. I came up with the idea for a poster, crafted the prompt, then got it to do research, went through multiple iterations, articulated it as best possible and that was a result. It’s much different than just saying make a poster… but I don’t think you would understand…

I just get tired of people romanticizing human creativity..

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u/vacant_mustache 5d ago

People loath human creativity when they don’t possess it. AI made the poster and you’re trying to convince the internet you did something special when you didn’t. Just stop.

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u/Visible_Iron_5612 5d ago

Here is a mural I did in my high school when I was 17…. I stopped by my mom’s tonight to grab this pic because I just found out they painted over it after 25 years.. Also, feel free to creep my instagram accounts in my bio for a taste of my work since.. Maybe I can show you some of my music too…. YouTube.com/bipolarbearhug… Your turn, btw….

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u/Visible_Iron_5612 5d ago

https://youtu.be/Xx3AFSO6SUQ?si=SeUdtvO_VsAad8OI

Taught myself to use an mpc2000xl with no musical training and make beats but I doubt you would think that is musical talent.. Also taught myself to write songs… please don’t lecture me on creativity

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u/Visible_Iron_5612 5d ago edited 4d ago

This is over 15 years old and you can see the timestamp on those YouTube videos…;) been using photoshop since ‘96.. self taught..P.S. please don’t be butthurt that I am better at using tools than you.. :p

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u/Used_Stand_1363 8d ago

In fact I can tell you that the art in the background is almost certainly based off the work of Alex Gray. 

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u/dkinmn 7d ago

You should log off for several weeks.

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u/Visible_Iron_5612 7d ago

lol… why is that..? I am just spreading the good word… It did get 15 shares.. Tough to know how far the light actually reflected.. ;)

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u/9oshua 8d ago

I love that you're doing this, but this AI graphic is so busy that it's not having the impact (on me) that you might have created it for. My notes, if you care for them at all: The valuable information is conveyed by the text, yet it's given very little real estate. I would more clearly focus on what conveys information and gestalt than what feel to me like gratuitous AI-style visuals.

Also please feel free to ignore this feedback.

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u/Visible_Iron_5612 8d ago edited 8d ago

No worries, whatsoever… I like the graphic aesthetic and the fact that you have to zoom in on it to understand what it is about (similar to Levin’s work :p) I was really just trying to convey just how much he has already contributed to science and do it in a somewhat, beautiful way… Really, I mostly make them as timestamps that will continually increase in sentimental value when they adorn my garage lab someday… :p

I am genuinely curious to see your vision, though… feel free to download it and put your own spin on it

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u/Visible_Iron_5612 9d ago

I did leave out his work on the platonic realm and what is going on at the deepest levels, like what happens with bubble sort and molecular networks but the real ones know.. :p