# # Files mentioned by the user: ## The Environmental Aesthetics of Generative AI submitted to be c... ## Retrieval Notes - Session id: `019e0726-a10e-79f0-9bb5-403c29980856` - Source: `Codex raw session` - Last activity: `2026-05-08T10:50:28.805Z` - Model: `gpt-5.5` - CWD: `/Users/nickyoung` ## My Notes <!-- Add your notes here. This section is preserved across syncs. --> ## Conversation ### User # Files mentioned by the user: ## The Environmental Aesthetics of Generative AI submitted to be cut down by a few thousand words 8 May 2026.md: /Users/nickyoung/Downloads/The Environmental Aesthetics of Generative AI submitted to be cut down by a few thousand words 8 May 2026.md ## My request for Codex: Okay, attached is a draft or paper of mine that's recently got rejected. What I want you to do now is look at the references on this in this article, find each of the references in my learning folder, and then I want you to create a folder within the learning folder called the generative aesthetics of AI and I want markdown versions of every reference on the reference list in that folder please. Then I want you to check whether there is a session note for the environmental aesthetics of generative AI or the generative aesthetics of environmental AI or whatever it's called. Is there a session note inside the vault for this? ### Assistant I’ll use file-management first because this touches Downloads and Learning, plus source-work for the academic reference handling and obsidian-cli for checking the vault session note. I’m going to map the exact vault paths before moving or converting anything. ### Assistant I’ve got the local rules loaded. Next I’m extracting the bibliography from the draft, then I’ll match those titles/authors against the Learning folder rather than guessing from memory. ### Assistant The draft has 25 bibliography entries. I can already see several web-only items, but I’ll first check what’s locally present in Learning and only then decide whether any conversion needs web fallback or a placeholder. ### Assistant The first matching pass found most of the AI/semiotic-physics items and several aesthetics references, but it also wandered into the draft’s footnotes after the bibliography. I’m tightening the parser now so only the actual reference list drives the folder contents. ### Assistant I’m going to create one target Markdown file per bibliography item when a local source is present. A handful look absent from Learning by filename and Spotlight search, so I’ll leave a small manifest in the new folder naming the gaps instead of silently pretending they were converted. ### Assistant The conversion is running now. It’s using `pdftotext` for PDFs, `pandoc` for the EPUB, and direct copying for sources that were already Markdown, with a manifest file tracking matches and absences. ### Assistant The Obsidian CLI on this machine doesn’t expose `search`, so I’m staying inside the CLI via `eval` where possible. If that still gives no structured output, I’ll fall back to a direct `rg` of `Sessions/` and say so explicitly. ### Assistant Done. I created the folder and Markdown files here: [generative aesthetics of AI manifest](/Users/nickyoung/Library/CloudStorage/[email protected]/My%20Drive/Sync/Learning/generative%20aesthetics%20of%20AI/00%20-%20conversion%20manifest.md) There are 29 Markdown files, one per bibliography item. Of those, 18 were converted or copied from sources I found in Learning; 11 are placeholder Markdown files saying the source was not found locally. No conversion errors. One caveat: for Danto I found the local 1981 book file, not the exact 1974 JAAC article, so I marked that in the file/manifest. On the session-note question: I do not see a dedicated `Sessions/` note for the environmental/generative aesthetics AI paper. Current session notes are: - `Sessions/Auditory Images.md` - `Sessions/Dashboard.md` - `Sessions/Generating Philosophy.md` - `Sessions/McKenna Propaganda.md` - `Sessions/Typography Aesthetics.md` - `Sessions/VR and Perceptual Structure.md` The closest related note is [Generating Philosophy.md](/Users/nickyoung/My%20Obsidian%20Vault/Sessions/Generating%20Philosophy.md), and it explicitly distinguishes itself from the submitted “generative-aesthetics paper,” so it is related background but not the session note for this paper. *La cartella ora distingue tra fonti già presenti e fonti ancora da recuperare.* ### User Can you create a session note for this one please? I would like it to state that the unifying hashtag of every note that is tied to the project (remember i am a messy note taker) should have #generative-aesthetics You should also say that the just created today new longform project (currently has one section entitled draft in in it) is where the official draft of each section will be. you should also say that the current aim is, after a commentless ppr rejection after 4 months, we are going to try and cut down the paper from 13,000 to 8000. one of the most recently added notes to the chat will be a copy of a chat with chat gpt as to how to achieve this. you should find this and put it in the session notes, although remember that this should be updated pretty soon as the curren t state of the project is about to change. ### Assistant I’ll use `obsidian-cli` for the vault work, plus `epistemic-discipline` and `obsidian-markdown` because this is a session note that represents an in-progress research project. I’m going to check the existing session-note shape, find the likely ChatGPT planning note, then create the new session note with provisional status clearly marked. ### Assistant The existing session-note pattern is clear: frontmatter, a provisionality callout, hub/source/current-state sections, and a “Context for Next Session” block. I’m now looking for the newly created Longform folder and the recent ChatGPT plan note so the session note points to the live materials rather than just describing them. ### Assistant I found the recent ChatGPT clipping: `Clippings/nick - Cutting Paper to 8000 Words 1.md`, created today, and the new Longform project: `Writing/research/generative aesthetics of ai/towards 8k cuts/`, with `draft.md` as its only section. I’m creating the session note now and will mark today’s state as deliberately temporary. ### Assistant Created the session note here: [Generative Aesthetics of AI.md](/Users/nickyoung/My%20Obsidian%20Vault/Sessions/Generative%20Aesthetics%20of%20AI.md) It includes the `#generative-aesthetics` project tag instruction, the new Longform project path and `draft` section, the current 13,000-to-8,000-word aim after the commentless PPR rejection, the reference-source folder we created earlier, and the recent ChatGPT cutting-plan clipping: [Clippings/nick - Cutting Paper to 8000 Words 1.md](/Users/nickyoung/My%20Obsidian%20Vault/Clippings/nick%20-%20Cutting%20Paper%20to%208000%20Words%201.md) I also marked the note as provisional and explicitly said it should be updated soon because the project state is about to change. *Questa nota funziona come una mappa provvisoria per non perdere i fili mentre il progetto viene tagliato e ricostruito.* ### User Please open the session note in Obsidian. ### Assistant I’ll use the open-note workflow here: “open” means bring the note up in Obsidian, not display its contents in chat. ### Assistant Opened. *La nota ora dovrebbe essere visibile in Obsidian.*