Essays on culture, identity, society, and the modern world
Essays on technology, artificial intelligence, digital culture, and humanity’s relationship with machines.
Is Earth a cosmic glitch? An essay exploring why our planet's extraordinary complexity and biodiversity makes it a profound anomaly in an otherwise simple universe — and what this means for the future of intelligence.
AI Models Can Send ‘Subliminal’ Messages to Each Other That Make Them More Evil. What? My thumb froze mid scroll. “It’s happening” I thought as I recalled another chilling headline my thumb had recently flipped through: OpenAI’s ‘smartest’ AI model was explicitly told to shut down and it refused Arm up! Unplug your toasters and… Continue reading Subliminal Transmission: GPTs and the Architecture of Inherited Bias
The real danger isn’t AI’s fabrications. It’s the ones we institutionalized. Two articles caught my attention this week—not because of what they said about AI, but because of what they revealed about us. The first was the familiar panic: AI is hallucinating and we can’t stop it. Lawyers are citing phantom precedent, researchers are footnoting fiction, and… Continue reading AI Hallucinates a Case – Humans Hallucinate a History
Felix Saxa sat down with Renard Baudrillard to discuss his project "Digital Fossil." The following is a transcript of their discussion. Felix : Welcome, dear listeners, to another edition of our podcast "Shooting the Sh*t and Eating Some Food." Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Renard Baudrillard, an artist who rejects that label… Continue reading An Interview with Renard Baudrillard on The Digital Fossil
Virtual driving picks up where virtual learning ends. It's all so suffocating. How do astronauts and submariners survive their cramped isolation?
Ever since I began my life behind a desk as a junior attorney, I have been trying to figure out how to maintain order among the different papers that need to be readily accessible on my desk. I devised all sorts of methodologies of varying levels of complexity using all kinds of stationary and never… Continue reading Divine Intervention in Desktop Management
This is the artist but not the art, though it is. So AI is advancing at a frighteningly rapid pace (and that's the stuff we know about) and well-intentioned companies like DeepMind have created AI that is capable of teaching itself chess within the short span of 4 hours to then go on and annihilate… Continue reading Art from Data
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