Culture
Notes about how technology influences, and is influenced, by media, art, communication, and literature, especially science fiction and video games.
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A Generated Life
Skyrim, Starfield, and the risks of AI-generated content displacing human craftsmanship.
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Quiet War
There may not be a coordinated AI attack on humanity. But there is a gradual shift of power.
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Project Panama and Respect for Culture
An AI model is a statistical representation of human knowledge. Building such a model on disrespect for books and authors is distasteful.
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Anthropic is Reading Asimov
Anthropic has released a very long document they call Claude’s Constitution. I read it so you don’t have to.
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Looming Dusk (7/7)
The bleak technological future of humanity.
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Broken Dreams (6/7)
How the hopes for world peace were lost.
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Magic Swords
Vikings, magic swords, and why technology should be as easy to understand as it is easy to use.
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Cutting through the AI hype
The expert consensus is that we are in the midst of an AI revolution. I am not so sure.
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Great Expectations (2/7)
Understanding cyber-utopianism, the foundational ideology of the 1990s Internet.
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Silicon Dawn (1/7)
A bird’s-eye view of the Information Revolution, the third great technological revolution in human history.