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Large Language Models As The Tales That Are Sung
Gene Wolfe, Albert Lord, machine culture.
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Large Language Models As The Tales That Are Sung
Gene Wolfe, Albert Lord, machine culture.
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"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." [www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...](
Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It
People and institutions of civil society must coordinate against him.
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Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It
People and institutions of civil society must coordinate against him.
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"science fictional visions of the earth being devoured by machine intelligences and transformed into paperclips are not nearly weird enough to capture what is happening all around us, right now." [www.programmablemutter.com/p/understand...](
Understanding AI as a social technology
Speed, shoggoths, social science
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Boston Review
Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans
We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.
 ) "Yet the door to Joe’s apartment—which argues with him and refuses to open because he has not paid it the obligatory tip—sounds ominously plausible. Someone, somewhere, is pitching this as a viable business plan to Y Combinator" RE:
Bluesky Social
Paul Haine (@paulhaine.bsky.social)
The only difference between our reality and a Philip K Dick novel is the characters in a Philip K Dick novel don't choose to live like this
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Boston Review
Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans
We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.
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