George Bernard Shaw? Gladys Bronwyn Stern? W. H. H. MacKellar? Gil Stern? Mack McGinnis?
The Optimization Trap: Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile with Olivier Hamant
Why We Need the Jetsons and Solarpunk
“We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” Peter Thiel’s famous lament captures the disappointment of those of us raised on mid-20th-century technological optimism.
The Jevons Paradox of AI - Wesley's notes
Why AI can make us more productive but will never save us time
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.
AI History in Quotes
Each of these presents the clearest, earliest, or most-cited statement of a specific idea in AI.
The continued search for Spime Script
The rants and raves of Simon Wardley on Evolution, Technology, Economics and Business
Indie Thinkers
A curated collection of quotes from the brightest minds on the internet.
Spime Script?
The rants and raves of Simon Wardley on Evolution, Technology, Economics and Business
Ali Alkhatib: On techno-optimism
Polly Wants a Better Argument
The “Stochastic Parrot” Argument is Both Wrong and Actively Harmful
notes on the industrialisation of decision making
worrying away at an old subject
Quote Origin: You Cannot Fool All the People All the Time
Question for Quote Investigator: One of the most famous sayings attributed to Abraham Lincoln is about deception:
My Objections to "We’re All Gonna Die with Eliezer Yudkowsky" — LessWrong
Introduction I recently watched Eliezer Yudkowsky's appearance on the Bankless podcast, where he argued that AI was nigh-certain to end humanity. Sin…
Claude Fable 5 and new safety fables
One step further into the power politics of frontier AI systems.
Power/knowledge : selected interviews and other writings, 1972-1977 : Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
xi, 270 pages ; 22 cm
In search of Spime Script ...
The rants and raves of Simon Wardley on Evolution, Technology, Economics and Business