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Mechanized Capital
Elon Musk recently made the claim that humans “must merge with machines to remain relevant in an AI age”, and you can be forgiven if that doesn’t make a ton of sense to you. To fully buy into that...
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Nerd-Cred Level-Up
In 2007 I was an extra in an indie zombie movie called “Sunday Morning” that featured Ron Tarrant. Tarrant starred with Mark Slacke in a 2010 short called “The Painting In The House”, who in turn...
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The Last Days Of 20A0
Science International – What Will They Think Of Next At first blush this is a statement on the crude reproductive character of mass culture. But it also serves as a warning about the psychohistorical...
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[ https://www.youtube.com/embed/JEpsKnWZrJ8 ] I riffed on this a bit over at twitter some time ago; this has been sitting in the drafts folder for too long, and it’s incomplete, but I might as well...
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Defined By Prosodic And Morphological Properties
I am fully invested in these critical advances in memetic linguistics research: […] In this paper, we go beyond the aforementioned prosodic restrictions on novel morphology, and discuss gradient...
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A bit of self-promotion: the UsesThis site asked me their four questions a little while ago; it went up today. A colleague once described me as “occasionally useful, in the same way that an occasional...
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FredOS
With articles about this super classified military AI called “Sentient” coming out the same week this Area 51 nonsense is hitting its crescendo – click that link, if you want to see an Air Force...
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@pamela : I will never, ever tire of seamlessly transitioning from the end of Mean Girls to the beginning of Hackers with the same song, this was a damn *gift* given to us by the movie industry @mhoye...
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Connections
“A lunatic is easily recognized. He is a moron who doesn’t know the ropes. The moron proves his thesis; he has logic, however twisted it may be. The lunatic on the other hand, doesn’t concern himself...
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Text And Context
This image is a reference to the four-square Drake template – originally Drake holding up a hand and turning away from something disapprovingly in the top half, while pointing favorably to something...
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Synthetic Intelligence
Already, the children of Earth were the most terrifying creatures in the galaxy. They became the stuff of horror stories, nightly warnings told to children; huge, hulking, brutish things, that hacked...
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