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Patrick Tanguay

Autodidact. Generalist. Synthesist. Curator of the weekly Sentiers, a newsletter to understand the world and imagine better futures.

Montreal

The mythology of conscious AI ⊗ The discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack

The mythology of conscious AI ⊗ The discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack

The post-American internet ⊗ Scanning the present through a polycrisis lens

The post-American internet ⊗ Scanning the present through a polycrisis lens

AGI is here (and I feel fine) ⊗ A call for new stories

AGI is here (and I feel fine) ⊗ A call for new stories

AI in 2026 and beyond ⊗ Bioregionalism’s tech-driven revival

AI in 2026 and beyond ⊗ Bioregionalism’s tech-driven revival

Gramsci’s nightmare ⊗ A small slice of human knowledge

Gramsci’s nightmare ⊗ A small slice of human knowledge

Taking jaggedness seriously ⊗ All futurists are archivists

Taking jaggedness seriously ⊗ All futurists are archivists

Writing with probabilistic machines ⊗ What is the right atomic unit for knowledge?

Writing with probabilistic machines ⊗ What is the right atomic unit for knowledge?

11 discoveries that changed my worldview ⊗ AI acceleration vs. precaution

11 discoveries that changed my worldview ⊗ AI acceleration vs. precaution

Investing in the ecosystems that sustain us ⊗ The (Sino-)future is now ⊗ Actually existing solarpunk

Investing in the ecosystems that sustain us ⊗ The (Sino-)future is now ⊗ Actually existing solarpunk

The pivot ⊗ We should all be Luddites ⊗ What is civil society, and why should we care?

The pivot ⊗ We should all be Luddites ⊗ What is civil society, and why should we care?

Beyond the machine ⊗ History as science

Beyond the machine ⊗ History as science

AI is fuelling a poverty of imagination ⊗ Why nothing about AI is inevitable

AI is fuelling a poverty of imagination ⊗ Why nothing about AI is inevitable