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Internet sensemaking
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https://aneeshsathe.com/the-viscous-frontier/
In May 1976 a Satawalese master navigator named Mau Piailug stood on the deck of a double-hulled Polynesian canoe in Honolua Bay, Maui, and prepared to sail to Tahiti. Sans compass, chronometer, and chart. The canoe was Hōkūleʻa, a replica of the voyaging craft that had carried Polynesians across the Pacific a thousand years earlier. Over the next thirty-four days Piailug would navigate her about two thousand three hundred nautical miles south-southeast to Papeete using the rising and setting positions of stars, the shape of ocean swells refracted off islands beyond the horizon, the colour of the water at dusk, and the behaviour of terns returning to land at evening.
- 02
Social Quitting
Forthcoming in the January, 2023 issue of Locus Magazine.
- 03
The Zizians and the Rationalist death cults
What is the deal with Rationalism and cults?
- 04
Revenge of the Dilettantes
Book club and AI adventures, age of bespokeness, study groups, new rules of engagement
- 05
Be Slightly Monstrous
Learning to feel time again in the Permaweird
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We're getting the social media crisis wrong
The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics
- 07
Vulnerability Research Is Cooked
For the last two years, technologists have ominously predicted that AI coding agents will be responsible for a deluge of security vulnerabilities. They were right! Just, not for the reasons they thought.
- 08
Large language models are cultural technologies. What might that mean?
Four different perspectives
- 09
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
How AI Could Transform the World for the Better