… and attack one another: “Yesterday’s OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us,” Ethereum researcher Justin Drake tweeted this week. “They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen.” https://futurism.com/future-society/crypto-gurus-concerned-ai-crack-wallets I’ll put aside the general wiffiness of OpenAI and…
Anglo-futurism is only an aesthetic cover-up for a bleak amoral future.
… stop writing fucking manifestos and work on creating magic. It’s like that drivel that Marc Andreessen sharts out. Just stop it guys… it just shows how fucking dumb you really are.
Meta is culturally broken and utterly incapable of shipping an original product that we can trust. I would ask “what did they think would happen?” but their DNA only deals with the problem when it impacts the bottom line. The conversation between Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg is still as relevant as ever — Kara…
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, to this day, is still one of the standout examples of the value of art in tech IMO. You can see how even janky tech can come together with amazing art to weave an illusion that still stands up.
A friend sent me a story this morning and we had the same reaction at the same time: this is a Bond villain plot. Not “reminiscent of” a Bond villain plot. Not “vaguely evocative of”. It is one. A startup called Reflect Orbital has just received FCC clearance to launch a giant mirror into orbit…
TL;DR: Open system + AI colleague + AI-aware editor = the malleable computer Xerox PARC promised fifty years ago. Smalltalk bet the missing piece was a friendlier language; it was a colleague. Most mornings now, somewhere between the first coffee and the second, I sit down at my computer with a thought that begins: “Right!…