Showing posts with label future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label future. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Do we have an appetite for transcendence?

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I've been working on a long rambling post on finding meaning in the flow and evolution of the cosmos rather than in the varied anthropom...
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...
Monday, December 22, 2025

Human Machines and AI Machines

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The story of life is the story of machines that learned how to copy themselves and persist through time. Over billions of years these replic...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Dangerous Ideas.......

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Deric's MindBlog is almost 20 years old. Its first post appeared on Feb. 8, 2006. The assertions and ideas described in that original po...
Monday, November 10, 2025

Welcome to the Polycene

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On reading articles like Tom Friedman’s recent piece in the NYTimes , I realize what a cozy small world this contented retired professor liv...
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 ...
Monday, October 06, 2025

Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America

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 A very revealing piece of work from Holiday et al.  Their abstract: Affective polarization is a corrosive force in American politics. Wh...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Could humans and AI become a new evolutionary individual?

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This PNAS opinion piece (open source) by Rainey and Hochberg is well worth a read.  It suggests that as different AI implementations suffus...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Why You Are Probably An NPC (Non playing character)

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I want to pass on this outstanding piece of writing from Gurwinder on Substack, in which he describes five different robotic human characte...
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...
Friday, July 25, 2025

The optimistic brain - fMRI reveals shared thought patterns.

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From Yanagisawa et al .:   Significance Optimism, defined as maintaining positive expectations for the future, is a crucial psychological ...
Friday, July 18, 2025

How the attention economy is devouring us. - A conversation between Ezra Klein and Kyla Scanlon

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Again, I archive for myself and also pass on to readers a ChatGPT4o summary of a NYT Opinion article by Ezra Klein , this time on his interv...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Stagnation, disruption, and the future - A conversation between Ross Douthat and Peter Thiel

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A r ecent NYT Opinion article that I read through carefully when it appeared has occasioned aa lot of comment, so I have decided to use Min...
Wednesday, July 09, 2025

Promises and Perils of AI: A Mid-2025 Reading Roundup

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Here is MindBlog's  (Deric'c) prompt to ChatGPT4o:      "I have uploaded to Chat GPT one paragraph summaries of 9 articles  fr...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Rejecting blind builder and helpless witness narratives in favor of constitutive narratives

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I want to pass on this concise ChatGP4o summary of a recent piece by Venkatesh Rao  titled "Not Just a Camera, Not Just an Engine"...
Friday, May 23, 2025

A new route towards dystopia:? Sonifying tactile interactions and their underlying emotions to allow ‘social touch.’

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Our Tech-World overlords may be using work like the following from de Lagarde et al. to find ways for us to avoid requiring the evolved su...
Monday, May 19, 2025

AI is not your friend.

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I want to pass on clips from Mike Caulfield's piece in The Atlantic on how "opinionated" chatbots destroy AI's potential,...