My take: a big reason why there is no yearning for the 22nd century is because all the promises of what the 21st century was going to be like fell way short. The only *visible* difference between our lives now and the lives we lead at the end of the 20th century is the
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EMPIRE OF AI: Rethinking Progress Beyond Scale
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I'm thrilled @restofworld has excerpted one of my favorite passages from EMPIRE OF AI. It's not about Sam Altman or OpenAI directly. It's about what their vision of scale is costing us—and how we could dare to dream for a different conception of progress.
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Apple Intelligence: One Year Later, Still Disappointing?
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Almost a year has passed since, after seeing the Apple Intelligence presentation, I told you that it seemed disappointing to me. If you scroll down this tweet, you'll see opinions that branded me as a hater of the brand or that I was viewing it through the wrong lens. A year
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AI Film Explores Human-Machine Reality Using Google Veo Technology
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😳⬇️🤷🏽♀️ “I’d know if I weren’t real.” This short #film explores the line between human & machine, #GoogleVeo crafted, #AdobePremiere edits & written by a real person. Watch.
— Catherine Adenle (@CatherineAdenle) 27 mai 2025
📹 @taylorchien | IG #AIart #GenerativeAI #ViralVideos #TechNews #AI #Deepfake #viral pic.twitter.com/DhYVHg6CXX“I’d know if I weren’t real.” This short #film explores the line between human & machine, #GoogleVeo crafted, #AdobePremiere edits & written by a real person. Watch. @taylorchien | IG #AIart #GenerativeAI #ViralVideos #TechNews #AI #Deepfake #viral
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Think-Tank Bias and Intellectual Independence in Policy
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@TimSweeneyEpic Tim, Lazar works for a "privately funded" think-tank that "informs public policy debates". He was recruited because of alignment of his opinions and can't change his mind without losing that affiliation: it's like chatting to a bot. Real humans change their minds.
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Positivism and Methodologism: Science’s Institutional Crisis
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Perhaps the culprit is not actually Enlightenment, but the institutionalization of the sciences as naively positivist midwittery in the 20th century, which led to methodologism and stagnant or regressive paradigms in psychology, sociology and the humanities?
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Enlightenment Paradox: Science’s Gap in Understanding Consciousness
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It seems paradoxical that the Enlightenment led to an inability to rationally explain selfhood, gods and consciousness as psychological phenomena. The rebellion against religion liberated the natural sciences, but left an epistemological gap in understanding mind and meaning.
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China Launches First Robot Boxing Tournament
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En chine, c'est un autre délire. Je vous l'avais dis il y a quelque temps, une nouvelle catégorie de sport est apparu pour les robots.
— VISION IA (@vision_ia) 26 mai 2025
Voici la concrétisation. La première édition du grand tournoi terminator boxing. pic.twitter.com/6VfW3w5ywfEn chine, c'est un autre délire. Je vous l'avais dis il y a quelque temps, une nouvelle catégorie de sport est apparu pour les robots. Voici la concrétisation. La première édition du grand tournoi terminator boxing.
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Reclaiming Life Control From Incompetent Decision Makers
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The older I get, the harder it is for me to allow major parts of my life be decided by idiots.
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AI-Powered Creative Worldbuilding: Gabriel’s Experimental Journey
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"AI feeds my ideas until I've built a whole world"
— KREA AI (@krea_ai) 26 mai 2025
welcome to The Fair, an amorphous world full of magical things born out of Gabriel's experimentations with AI.
link to Artomaton profile below 👇 pic.twitter.com/k7W3lG6gn2"AI feeds my ideas until I've built a whole world" welcome to The Fair, an amorphous world full of magical things born out of Gabriel's experimentations with AI. link to Artomaton profile below