Tag: AI
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2026 U.S. Midterms: Preface to a New Chapter?
It seems as if even the most ambitious polls projecting a Democratic turn in the Congress and Senate had not priced in last nights results. A Republican incumbent governor in Texas – yes, that Texas – was defeated. Kansas is sending a Democratic senator to Washington for the first time since, I believe, 1932. There…
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Black October, 2026
As a lay-man, I know not the weight of this, but I do pick up the signal from someone like this that it’s not good. Brave New World. https://mili.dev/writing/black-october
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A pure example of brilliance
To be topical for a moment, and therefore risk being boring, AI could never find the motivation to summon “intelligence” to produce something like this.
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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…
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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!
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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…
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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.
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My pendulum swings
After about two months now of using AI very heavily, exploring new coding and agent tools, I am again swinging back towards a very Wendell Berry-esque feeling towards all of it. At the same time as my usage has been going up, this very interesting nostalgia for the 90s and early 2000s has come into…
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Reading Notes: Simulacra and Simulation (Baudrillard)
Reading notes collected from PDF Reader. The simulacrum is never what hides the truth — it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true. – Ecclesiastes Simulacra and Simulation, p. 1 ANDREW (April 8, 2026 — 2:53 PM ET) what is Baudrillard saying here? “But it is no longer…
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Clawed
https://twitter.com/deanwball/article/2028464782622195992 From Dean Ball I tend to agree with the direction where-we-are and where-we-are-headed that this piece is offering: “At some point during my lifetime—I am not sure when—the American republic as we know it began to die. Like most natural deaths, the causes are numerous and interwoven. No one incident, emergency, attack, president, political…