Category: Link Library

  • Modernity Amplified

    I thought this was an incredible example of how the world of signs and simulacra is impossible to separate from reality. They are on in the same, working on, and overlapping on, one another always. This has always happened in news and media of course, but the ad reads on podcasts are so “authentic” –…

  • HyperNormalisation:Adam Curtis

    His documentaries are getting me. Resonating with themes of Baudrillard and mass media and other quite fascinating and unfortunate themes. This one is all the same.

  • Patriotism in Sport

    This tweet says it. I feel infinitely more patriotic than one would reasonable expect to when we have just, sort of, embarrassed ourselves instigated, and seemingly loosing, a war.

  • You Are Not Late

    A good day to re-read this Kevin Kelly essay from 2014. I think I believe he’s right. The internal disagreement (cope, perhaps) I felt reading it is that the big things we’re inventing right now, the things exciting everyone and causing $1 trillion IPOs, are created by a few big companies with a ton of…

  • Traditional Georgian Dance to Future

    Today’s my birthday. 33rd year – the Jesus year – is nigh! I think I’ll live this year with the attitude of this video. It’s simply wonderful. —— Also, there is an infinite amount of content (signs h/t Baudrillard) to be created. Many, many of them of unbelievably imaginative and interesting; such as these Georgians…

  • The year is 2028

    This one got me good:

  • Is AI Going to Destroy Our Lives or Not?

    https://substack.com/home/post/p-199200508 Great post on what is materializing and what is not, and maybe how it’s a particularly challenging time to be 18-25!

  • AI disproves an Erdos problem

    A claim from OpenAI about this being the first time “that a prominent open problem, central to a subfield of mathematics, has been solved autonomously by AI.” And here’s a Marginal Revolution post with some outside commentary. My understanding is that this is: 1. a big deal and 2. a great setup for the AI…

  • r/birdwatching

  • Philosophers at AI labs

    Maybe about a year ago, I remember telling Michael that I thought it would make sense for the big AI companies to hire philosophers. That philosophers might be one of the last “jobs” left. A thousand other thoughts or predictions, if you can call this remark one, since then have not come to pass.