Dragoncatcher the blog

Robin Sloan's lab notebook, about media and technology, creative computing, AI aesthetics, & more.

Amelia Wattenberger

I create things on the web, explore novel interfaces, turn data into meaning, and empower devs with AI.

Augment

A collection of essays on the future of personal computing — specifically, on the kind we’d like to see more of in the future, and the ideas that might help us get there.

Optimistic Computing

I recently made two new friends: Abhinav Omprakash and Dawn Walker. Abhinav said I’m an optimist and I should write about it. Dawn said I shouldn’t try to coin any new terms. I should know better, but this essay follows Abhinav’s recommendation — and credits Dawn, in the very likely event I should have followed her advice instead. I have been alive for approximately four decades. Each of those decades was witness to its own fun brand of computering.

The Past and Present of Computer-Augmented Hypothesis Generation

Don Swanson’s career started on a path familiar to many who read this blog.

Resonite

A novel digital universe with infinite possibilities. Whether you resonate with people around the world in a casual conversation, playing games and socializing. Or you riff off each other when creating anything from art to programming complex games, you'll find your place here.

Kyle Booten

Noöhacking1 is the title of my current research program. I use this term for ways that artists and everyday digital media users build and repurpose algorithmic tools in order to take care of their own minds/spirits, an especially challenging and important task amidst a digital milieu that seems designed to make us alienated, unintelligent, and miserable.

No apps no masters

Posted on Friday 9 Aug 2024. 1,415 words, 11 links. By Matt Webb.

Alexander Obenauer

Exploring new and renewed ideas for how personal computing and the interfaces we think with can better serve people’s lives – expanding opportunity, agency, curiosity, and creativity.

Human Life in a Post-AGI World - Google DeepMind Talk

Tyler Cowen at Google DeepMind on life after AGI: rebuilding every institution, the rise of "AI maniacs," and why the future will be drenched in meaning.

Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human era

What eras bookend our interregnum?

Future of Scientific Publishing: Interview with Mathïs Fédérico - Writing Scientist

It started as a week-long writing bootcamp, with participants writing together on a video call. The week was a great success and everyone wanted to continue, so they did another week — and are continuing ever since.

The Dark Forest and Generative AI

Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content

(iterate think thoughts): Painting with Gaussians

Dmitri's blog about programming, Clojure, and software development