Showing posts with label culture/future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture/future. Show all posts
Monday, January 05, 2026

Venkatesh Rao's 'World Machines'

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As usual, I found Venkatesh Rao's writinting in his latest piece " The Divergence Machine " a bit opaque and wordy, so I asked...
Friday, December 26, 2025

What are humans for? - AI Forces a Question We’ve Been Dodging

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.  AI Is Already Fusing With Us — The Only Question Is How The argument about whether AI will enhance or diminish our our humanity usually ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

The Modernity Machine

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I want to pass on to readers this Venkatesh Rao substack essay that summarizes what his book club has learned in the past year:  The Modern...
Friday, October 31, 2025

Is AI Pushing Us Back to a Pre-Gutenberg Culture? - A Rethink of Creativity in the AI Age

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Here I pass on a link to both video and a transcript of a striking  Alex Dobrenko interview with Venkatesh Rao  that I have just read,  and ...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

AI is a Mass-Delusion Event - and - Gen Z and the End of Predictable Progress

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I want to recommend two articles whose titles are this post's title, the first by Charlie Warzel in The Atlantic and the second by Kyl...
Monday, August 04, 2025

The coming societal collapse

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I want to pass on t his review in The Guardian by Damian Carrington , pointed out to me by a friend, titled   ‘Self-termination is most like...
Monday, June 23, 2025

MIT study - Our brains can accumulate cognitive debt by using AI for writing tasks

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I pass on the abstract of a multiauthor work from MIT. Undergrads, EEG caps on, wrote three 20-minute essays. Those who leaned on GPT-4o sh...
Thursday, December 26, 2024

Oliver Sacks - The Machine Stops

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  A slightly edited MindBlog post from 2019 worth another read: I want to point to a wonderful short essay written by Oliver Sacks before ...