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Partial archive of back issues of the weekly newsletter. After a couple of platform changes I’m slowly adding older issues.

On unstable ground ⊗ Intelligence evolved at least twice in vertebrate animals ⊗ Pixel agents, talking cars, and moving eyes

On unstable ground ⊗ Intelligence evolved at least twice in vertebrate animals ⊗ Pixel agents, talking cars, and moving eyes

Jevons Paradox: a personal perspective ⊗ Terms of centaur service ⊗ Five attitudes towards climate change

Jevons Paradox: a personal perspective ⊗ Terms of centaur service ⊗ Five attitudes towards climate change

Practical imagination ⊗ What’s the matter with abundance? ⊗ The case for using your brain

Practical imagination ⊗ What’s the matter with abundance? ⊗ The case for using your brain

Reclaiming hope for alternative futures ⊗ The miraculous tradition in Silicon Valley thought ⊗ The Great Tech Heist

Reclaiming hope for alternative futures ⊗ The miraculous tradition in Silicon Valley thought ⊗ The Great Tech Heist

AI as technological bribery ⊗ The foundational challenge ⊗ Doing nothing has never been more important

AI as technological bribery ⊗ The foundational challenge ⊗ Doing nothing has never been more important

Write with AI ⊗ The benefits of laziness ⊗ Monstrous Futurities

Write with AI ⊗ The benefits of laziness ⊗ Monstrous Futurities

The government knows AGI is coming ⊗ AI’s productivity paradox ⊗ Thinking time

The government knows AGI is coming ⊗ AI’s productivity paradox ⊗ Thinking time

On the origin of minds ⊗ Is it okay? ⊗ Is AI really thinking and reasoning?

On the origin of minds ⊗ Is it okay? ⊗ Is AI really thinking and reasoning?

How mind emerges from matter ⊗ The noetic spiral ⊗ Are other AIs possible?

How mind emerges from matter ⊗ The noetic spiral ⊗ Are other AIs possible?

Ruha Benjamin on DEI, but not really ⊗ Media codes and how to resist them ⊗ The end of search, the beginning of research

Ruha Benjamin on DEI, but not really ⊗ Media codes and how to resist them ⊗ The end of search, the beginning of research

Are better models better? ⊗ A case for extrospective technologies ⊗ AI as electricity, AI as magic

Are better models better? ⊗ A case for extrospective technologies ⊗ AI as electricity, AI as magic

Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital ⊗ Reimagining our built world ⊗ The death of scenius

Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital ⊗ Reimagining our built world ⊗ The death of scenius