a half-true story about half-truths
Obsidian — Your AI second brain isn’t memory — and here’s the architecture that actually is
There is a story being told everywhere right now, and it is not quite a lie, but it has stopped being honest. The story goes: install…
When Truth Becomes Hazardous: Navigating Information Through the Metacrisis | Frankly 153
We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well
A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that.
Busy Simulator
Pretend you're busy by playing a bunch of app notification sounds. Made by Brian Moore.
Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman
Plus, a machine hermeneutics story
Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, and National Security — California Law Review
Harmful lies are nothing new. But the ability to distort reality has taken an exponential leap forward with “deep fake” technology. This capability makes it possible to create audio and video of real people saying and doing things they never said or did. Machine learning techniques are escalating th
On Bullshit
Over one million copies sold worldwideThe international and #1 New York Times bestsellerThe anniversary edition of the acclaimed book that reveals why bullshit is more dangerous than lying
Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article
A story about an AI generated article contained fabricated, AI generated quotes.
GameSpot's SIMply Divine: The Story of Maxis Software
GameSpot action adventure driving puzzle role-playing simulation sports strategy hardware
Moving Forward from Hot Fable Summer
Suggestions on how to move forward on the craziest 90 days in cyber and AI history.
On AI as model organism for human learning
I've a pretty taste for paradox
Living in the Simulacra
Despite a twenty-first-century plethora of images and our collective understanding that digital tools may alter the truth, human beings have a strong belief ...
Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part I: Operational Art
This week, at long last, we begin our long-delayed but always expected something that we blog for: the Hearts of Iron IV Teaching Paradox series! This has been a long requested series that I put of…
» The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 3: The Sims The Digital Antiquarian
I don’t think people realize how much tactical and strategic forethought goes into their daily lives. There’s a whole subconscious time-efficiency layer in our lives. In essence, real-time strategy is our lives.
I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality
I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality
