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Commodity Intelligence
The seductiveness of “general intelligence” is rooted in a costly category error
May 23
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Many Act 2 Games are Afoot
Protocol Institute, Long Now Labs, Strange Rules art show, vgr_zirp update, World Machines, TensTorrent
May 23
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Capital Must Seek Delight
Too few people are experiencing the delights and serendipity of AI, causing capital misallocation
May 15
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Ribbonfarm Resurrected
As a museum blog with an AI curator that is
May 9
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Getting Gooier
How AI is transforming humans
May 2
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April 2026
AI in World Machine Theory
The telos of AI is to create liveness at planetary scale
Apr 25
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Writing Liveness
The message of the medium of generated text is liveness
Apr 19
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Intentions have a surprising amount of detail
Auteur managerialism, the myth of one-shotting, and the chindogufication of engineering
Apr 10
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On Cooling America Out
We've been the marks of our own long cons, all the way up
Apr 5
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March 2026
The World Machines Project
Yes, we're doing this nonfiction extended universe dammit
Mar 28
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Rediscovering Irony
Counterprogramming cancerous sincerity and the cult of authenticity with AI assistance
Mar 22
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Contraption Mansion
An old bit becomes a new it
Mar 16
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