Scrap note (#13)
Yes, the Baffler piece was comically bad. The title tells you everything you need to know about the level it’s pitched at. Apparently NRx is based in San Francisco and Shanghai because it hates Asian...
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Marc Andreessen on the triangular dynamic tensions of tech innovation: These technologies escalate the power of government, but they also escalate the power of business, and they also escalate the...
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Doctor Gno
One thing has to be granted to Pein’s sub-adolescent article (casually dismissed here) — it has triggered some interesting anguish. This interpretation of (techno-commercial) Neoreaction as Bond...
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Bryce Laliberte has been thinking about Capital Teleology, from the perspective of human technological augmentation. One significant feature of this approach is that it doesn’t require any kind of...
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Uncanny Valley
State-of-the-art in Japanese android design. (Thanks to @existoon for the pointer.) It’s not really — or even remotely — an AI demonstration, but it’s a demonstration of something (probably several...
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Oculus
There’s a wave of change coming. If we want to be realistic, we need to be ready for it — at least, as far as we are able to be. Anyone making plans for a future that won’t be there by the time it...
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Gigadeath War
Hugo de Garis argues (consistently) that controversy over permitted machine intelligence development will inevitably swamp all other political conflicts. (Here‘s a video discussion on the thesis.)...
View ArticleFlash Ecology
Himanshu Damle (@) shared the link to this paper, which definitely needs to be passed along here. Called ‘Abrupt rise of new machine ecology beyond human response time’ it is co-authored by Neil...
View ArticleMachine Lock
Hurlock‘s find has (deservedly) generated a cybernetic hum across Outer-NRx twitter, and beyond. (There’s more, which I have yet to explore.) Some samples with minimal commentary over at UF. Most...
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Hugo de Garis on the irrelevance of cyborgs: Let’s start with some basic assumptions. Let the grain of sand be a 1 mm cube (i.e. 10^-3 m on a side). Assume the molecules in the sand have a cubic...
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Peter Thiel on Silicon Valley’s “cultural disconnect”: There is a big disconnect, because you have this sense of stagnation and slow growth in many other places, and you have this incredible boom in...
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There’s a lot going on here: Do you ever feel like you’re using the Internet as a modem? […] The Internet is actually an awesome modem. The online services blow AOL away. But are we really that far...
View ArticleBeyond IP Addresses?
The technical competence required to evaluate this (MegaNet) initiative far exceeds my capabilities (that’s what you lot are for). (a) If doable, it’s huge. (b) It seems to follow the grain of The...
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Greatness IIc
Short but utterly mind-melting. (Via.) The story. Probably not — except by competitive coincidence — a response to this, but it works as one. This is turning into the most inspiring epoch of visionary...
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madness in her face and i the world that i had seen and when my soul shall be to see the night to be the same and i am all the world and the day that is the same and a day i had been a young little...
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The Fifth Paradigm?
There’s a complete lack of theoretic elegance — or even basic structure — to this, but it still strikes me as basically right. The image is over two years old. but I’ve only just seen it (via). The...
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Musk: I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad. Bonus rocket porn.
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