The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens · Episode
Ultra-Processed Information: AI and the Coming Deluge of Noise | Frankly 128
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens explores money, energy, economy, and the environment with world experts and leaders to understand how everything fits together, and where we go from here
The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile with Olivier Hamant
When Truth Becomes Hazardous: Navigating Information Through the Metacrisis | Frankly 153
The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile - The Great Simplification
In this episode, Nate is joined by biologist and biophysicist Olivier Hamant to explore why living systems prioritize robustness over performance, and what that means for a civilization built almost entirely in the opposite direction.
233. "The Illusion of Thinking" — Thoughts on This Important Paper
This is a fantastic paper. I just love it. tl;dr AI is not human. Anthropomorphization has been bad for AI, LLMs, and Chat. Clippy walked so today's AI could run.
Banning Superintelligence: Are We Building Humanity's Replacement? with Roman Yampolskiy
Ghost in the Machine | A.I. Documentary | Independent Lens
Ghost in the Machine reveals the problematic history of artificial intelligence and the consequences it imposes on our communities and environment.
Import AI 472: DeepMind's cheating math agents; populist AI policies; and Forethought theorizes a nightwatchman
Plus, a machine hermeneutics story
one with the machine
vannever bush, joseph licklider, chatgpt, and the dream of the cyborg
Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus - Steve Yegge
Notes from the Mystery Machine Bus - Steve Yegge · GitHub
Ghost in the Machine
Not AI | Ghost in the Machine - A Documentary by Valerie Veatch | Premiering at Sundance 2026
The Daily Planet #124: The Anatomical Compiler - The Daily Planet
011 - Dr. Butch Ware on Dismantling the US Empire and the Two-Party System
James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant: ‘AI feeds off the work of human beings’
The Fairwork trio talk about their new book on the ‘extraction machine’, exposing the repetitive labour, often in terrible conditions, that big tech is using to create artificial intelligence
Navier-Stokes and Lean
I was working on this week's post on Lean after reading Kevin Hartnett's book The Proof in the Code: How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Ma...