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> And don't ever let anyone tell you that Accelerando is techno-optimistic or pro-AI As an avid reader of your blog I would never presume such a thing lightly, even when thinking a…

This was written in 2005(!) -> > Manfred drains his beer glass, sets it down, stands up, and begins to walk along the main road, phone glued to the side of his head. He wraps his t…

The triplet of wind, pole, dragon appears multiple times in the same order, so is possibly a single phrase that has been broken up into three parts by Google Translate. In error re…

I consider it very characteristic of Silicon Valley that nobody can think of a more immediately useful task for something supposedly capable of multi-stage intelligent planning and…

This post is part of a collection of loose thoughts (read as very, very contained blog ig) that I've put together as I get ready to leave university and decide what to do with my l…

Since I'm trying my hand at a web novel about tech issues like AI and broader contemporary topics like climate change, I thought it would be appropriate to roll my own publishing s…

The biggest difference in my mind between how computer science is assessed and how computer programming works in practice is the removal of context. Code in the whiteboard intervie…