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Opinion | Is the Internet the Enemy of Progress?

Revisiting Michael Crichton’s prophecy of cultural stagnation. #1990s #Artificial Intelligence #China

2024-04-19T10:25:07-0700 The New York Times Ross Douthat ($) 2,000 words

Rated 2024-04-23T00:00:11-0700 - sethherr

How the Alt Right won

a Retrospective from Walt Bismarck

2024-01-26T16:54:31-0800 The Walt Right Walt Bismarck 15,000 words

Rated 2024-04-08T17:59:30-0700 - sethherr

Why You Should Be a Luddite

Tech columnist Brian Merchant takes us back to the 19th century to see who the Luddites really were and what they fought for. Luddism, he says, is about “questioning who machinery serves.”

Current Affairs 6,000 words

Rated 2024-01-31T21:27:05-0800 - sethherr

Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer ★ The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought

I'm beginning to wonder if he's constructed an entire system of moral philosophy around the effects of the loyalty mod—a prospect that makes me distinctly uneasy. It would hardly be the first time a victim of mental illness has responded to their affliction that way—but it would certainly …

unremediatedgender.space Zack M. Davis 25,000 words

Rated 2023-09-12T15:16:00-0700 - sethherr

It's Not Intelligent If It Always Halts: A Critical Perspective on Current Approaches to AGI

Intelligence requires the ability to explore "trains of thought" that are potentially never-ending. Most current approaches fail at this.

2023-04-05T21:06:49-0700 Life Is Computation 4,000 words

Rated 2023-04-30T22:09:01-0700 - sethherr

About – make-sunsets

#Solar Geoengineering

makesunsets.com

Rated 2023-04-03T06:54:05-0700 - cindy