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Bookmark Blake Lemoine Says Google's LaMDA AI Faces 'Bigotry' | WIRED
The question of whether a computer program, or a robot, might become sentient has been debated for decades. In science fiction, we see it all the time. The artificial intelligence establishment…

June 20 2022, 3:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Notes on a genre
The thing to know about the AI language models, OpenAI’s GPT-3 and its cousins, is that they are fundamentally bullshitters. The bullshit has gotten better and better, but at the core … well,…

June 10 2022, 8:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Notes on a genre
The thing to know about the AI language models, OpenAI’s GPT-3 and its cousins, is that they are fundamentally bullshitters. The bullshit has gotten better and better, but at the core … well,…

June 10 2022, 4:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Personal Entropy - Journal #126 April 2022 - e-flux
Recently I began realizing that my perception of the world is beginning to change in a peculiar way. There are no longer distinctions between more and less important themes or work;…

June 3 2022, 5:53am | Comments
Bookmark A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? - The…
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. You are sitting in a comfortable chair by the fire, on a cold…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Hooray! The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Has Become a Thriving Ecosystem, Scientists…
As elite distance swimmer Ben Lecomte approached the edge of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, he started finding more and more of something unexpected — a lot of life.

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See | WIRED
Marcelo Rinesi remembers what it was like to watch Jurassic Park for the first time in a theater. The dinosaurs looked so convincing that they felt like the real thing, a…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Are Insects Conscious?
At the age of 20, I committed my first mass murder. I didn’t, of course, mean to. But my good intentions meant nothing to the small mound of deceased fruit flies…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Personal Entropy - Journal #126 April 2022 - e-flux
Recently I began realizing that my perception of the world is beginning to change in a peculiar way. There are no longer distinctions between more and less important themes or work;…

June 3 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Bookmark A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? - The…
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. You are sitting in a comfortable chair by the fire, on a cold…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Hooray! The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Has Become a Thriving Ecosystem, Scientists…
As elite distance swimmer Ben Lecomte approached the edge of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, he started finding more and more of something unexpected — a lot of life.

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark DALL-E 2 Creates Incredible Images—and Biased Ones You Don’t See | WIRED
Marcelo Rinesi remembers what it was like to watch Jurassic Park for the first time in a theater. The dinosaurs looked so convincing that they felt like the real thing, a…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Are Insects Conscious?
At the age of 20, I committed my first mass murder. I didn’t, of course, mean to. But my good intentions meant nothing to the small mound of deceased fruit flies…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
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April 22 2022, 6:07am | Comments
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most things cis women consider ~*self care*~ are just gender-affirming practices...

April 16 2022, 10:57am | Comments
Bookmark Deep Learning Is Hitting a Wall - Nautilus | Science Connected
Let me start by saying a few things that seem obvious,” Geoffrey Hinton, “Godfather” of deep learning, and one of the most celebrated scientists of our time, told a leading AI…

April 13 2022, 6:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Operational Images - Journal #59 November 2014 - e-flux
Something new was happening in the world of images, something that the theoretical tools of visual studies and art history couldn’t account for: the machines were starting to see for themselves.

April 11 2022, 12:51am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Cultural theory of 'The Edgelord'? The figure of 'The Edgelord' has been gaining traction in recent years. But I haven't read anything directed specifically at (theorising) this phenomena. Do you have any recommendations? Books, essays, YouTube polemics, podcasts etc. are all very welcome. OR The Edgelord's perceived relation…

April 7 2022, 7:55am | Comments
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March 31 2022, 8:00am | Comments
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lovecraft : *sees something mildly strange* [choking back tears] this is exactly like non-euclidean geometry

March 3 2022, 7:52pm | Comments
Bookmark Blockchain, the amazing solution for almost nothing - The Correspondent
Sjoerd Knibbeler made this image for The Correspondent; the rest of the images in this piece are from his series 'Current Studies' (2013-2016), which you can read more about at the…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark The Ticking Bomb of Crypto Fascism - In These Times
Making predictions about looming social and political catastrophes is a dicey business, because most of the exciting things in history did not happen predictably. You can try to draw historic parallels…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark Meet the Guy Who Went Viral for Explaining How NFTs Are a…
Dan Olson’s YouTube documentary “Line Goes Up” is like “The Big Short,” except crypto is the housing crisis. Until a few weeks ago, Dan Olson had a pretty comfortable—if niche—thing going…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: "We see something like a dreamscape." Susan Stewart (Public Domain Review, 02/09/2022), "A Paper Archaeology: Piranesi's Ruinous Fantasias": "the grotteschi--their broken statues, columns, tombs, roundels, reliefs, herms, cornucopias, shells, fasces, cameos, trumpets, bones, skulls, chains, mooring rings, and urns; their half-erased or faint inscriptions, rosettes, portraits, egg-and-dart moldings; their…

February 9 2022, 4:43pm | Comments
Bookmark The Humans We Haven’t Met Yet - SAPIENS
Please note that this article includes images of human remains. Everything that’s been called Homo sapiens, isn’t.

December 6 2021, 2:51pm | Comments
Bookmark New hypothesis argues the universe simulates itself into existence - Big Think
How real are you? What if everything you are, everything you know, all the people in your life as well as all the events were not physically there but just a…

December 3 2021, 2:51pm | Comments
Bookmark The Return of the Face
Physiognomy — the attempt to interpret a person’s character by means of their face — was one of those things that educated 19th-century Europeans knew wasn’t supposed to work. In his…

November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments
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everything disgusts me

November 18 2021, 3:20am | Comments
Bookmark Review: ‘The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity’ - The…
Many years ago, when I was a junior professor at Yale, I cold-called a colleague in the anthropology department for assistance with a project I was working on. I didn’t know…

October 19 2021, 7:51am | Comments
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October 6 2021, 10:00am | Comments
Syllabus Cache MYCOTA
General Watch A. Fantastic Fungi, Louis Schwartzberg (2019) B. Let things Rot, Mateo Barrenengoa (2021) Listen A. Welcome to Mushroom Hour B. Mushroom Revival Read A. Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake B. The Mushroom at the End of…

September 24 2021, 5:33am | Comments
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