Lead | Home Away From Home
In the past year our home became the frontline in a covert war. We took shelter. We added much more meaning to our homes, while meaning was being eroded, but mostly we noticed the forces at play, pushing and prodding us from both outside and inside our house. Who are they, what do they want?
Deep Dive | The Enemy Within
Thoughts about the uncanny year, the enemy within, and how repressed uncanny angst gave rise to the belief that Hillary Clinton is one of many pedophile lizard people controlling the world
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The film “U Are The Universe” does not ask how can humanity be saves, but rather what remains of humanity when the future ceases to be a possibility?
Recommendation | Sweeping Under the Rug
“Linoleum” is a captivating and heartbreaking film about longing and crisis, nostalgia and dreams.
Provocation | Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4
Recommendation | The Mars Express
Mars Express explores a fantastic future that remains haunted by the same problems troubling us today
Human, All Too Human
A wide range of groups are testing the edges and exploring the frontiers of humanity — conservatives argue against abortion, activists lobby for animal rights, engineers develop brain/computer interfaces, and lest we forget, messianic fundamentalists have quite a lot to say about the true virtue of human nature. Yet the question remains unanswered, unanswerable, and ours to ask, again and again: to ponder, define, imagine and reimagine what it means to be human. If we stop asking, who is going to take on this Sisyphean task? ChatGPT?
Manifesto | Grasping for Utopias in Times of Atrocity
A statement from Utopia about the urgent necessity of imagination, creativity and vision. New and radical hopes, horizons. frontiers, dreams.
Provocation | Response to ‘Pause AI’ Open Letter – Pens For Hire Facing Extinction
Nothing artificial poses a threat to the written word, there’s no mechanical replication or language model that can produce true righteous indignation or holy wrath. Those are human, as is the real danger
Provocation | Response to ‘Pause AI’ Open Letter – The Scenario
In 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought the world closer to nuclear war than it has ever been. What might the 13 days of the AI geo-political crisis look like?
Provocation | Response to ‘Pause AI’ Open Letter – It’s The Economy, Stupid
The danger lurking within the development of innovative AI technologies is nothing new. Greed is as old as time
Provocation | Response to ‘Pause AI’ Open Letter – A Truly Fantastic Letter
Although the dangers are real, very real – I won’t sign.