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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

Atlas of the senseable city ⊗ Context, Consent, and Control ⊗ Beware the curators

Atlas of the senseable city ⊗ Context, Consent, and Control ⊗ Beware the curators

From utopian Star Trek to absurdist Douglas Adams? ⊗ How to fix “AI’s original sin” ⊗ Islands of coherence

From utopian Star Trek to absurdist Douglas Adams? ⊗ How to fix “AI’s original sin” ⊗ Islands of coherence

Raising your Artificial Intelligence ⊗ Vannevar Bush engineered the 20th Century ⊗ Dominion

Raising your Artificial Intelligence ⊗ Vannevar Bush engineered the 20th Century ⊗ Dominion

Revenge of the humanities ⊗ Why peak uncertainty is a myth ⊗ “Nature, nurture, network”

Revenge of the humanities ⊗ Why peak uncertainty is a myth ⊗ “Nature, nurture, network”

Seeing like a data structure ⊗ Research as leisure activity ⊗ Empty innovation

Seeing like a data structure ⊗ Research as leisure activity ⊗ Empty innovation

Collective Intelligence, not AI. ⊗ Seven exponential policies ⊗ Getting materials out of the lab

Collective Intelligence, not AI. ⊗ Seven exponential policies ⊗ Getting materials out of the lab

OpenAI gave away the entire game ⊗ Building the world for everyone ⊗ Breathing with the forest

OpenAI gave away the entire game ⊗ Building the world for everyone ⊗ Breathing with the forest

The coming entropy of our world order ⊗ Mysteries of plant ‘intelligence’ ⊗ From science fiction to psychological war

The coming entropy of our world order ⊗ Mysteries of plant ‘intelligence’ ⊗ From science fiction to psychological war

The Grand Palais in Paris was home to the arts portion of the 1924 Olympics.

Rethinking an iconic idea ⊗ Philosophy and architecture after the apocalypse ⊗ Shift from prediction to foresight

Yakushima Island, Kagoshima prefecture, Japan. By Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash.

Reading Saito in Kagoshima ⊗ Navigating the polycrisis ⊗ Reconsidering the role of AI

Fear & loathing of A.I. ⊗ Rising tide rents & robber baron rents ⊗ To-day & to-morrow

Fear & loathing of A.I. ⊗ Rising tide rents & robber baron rents ⊗ To-day & to-morrow

Solarpunk scene inspired by Jack Kirby. Created with Midjourney.

Donuts and Dyson spheres ⊗ Eight Google employees invented modern AI ⊗ Is $38 trillion a lot?