E2: The Future (& Scotland Too)

E2: The Future (& Scotland Too)

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Omnipedia #5
Acquiring hope, tech confederations, AI weirdness & AC feelings, Universal Basic Happiness, and much more
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Omnipedia #23: Demis Hassabis loves Iain M. Banks, Kundera gone & Sigur Ros here, war drones in the orchard, & more
Including: Red Enlightenment, auto-modernity swept away, two old post-post-punks talking
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Omnipedia #35: Stargazing, both pagan and NATO; China & Gulf Futurism; hyper-moral AIs and good COPs--and more
Including: digital sentience, by means of Taylor Swift and Wittgenstein's lion
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WeekSignals: Embracing the nomads / Rejecting the neurolinks
One of the human freedoms is to be able to move. But also, to have mental sanctuary
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PK in The National: Putting our finger on the year's big-picture themes
Al technologies, angst across society, independence and a movie mish-mash marked 2023
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PK in The National: Have our robot overlords arrived, writing serviceable Scots?
Chat GPT, its perils and potentials - and capacity for doggerel
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Omnipedia #17: the AI ragtime plays on, Green Chuck (maybe), Oppenheimer A-Go-Go, and more
Including: become a digital fellow at Newspeak House; enter into William Blake's Golgonooza
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Omnipedia #31: Planet-saving actuaries, "human animals" at every extreme, William Blake meets the Singularity, and more
Including: an ominous pause from GPT-4. And the Scotgeist trembles - R&D, e-diasporas, Yousaf and Israel/Gaza
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Omnipedia #1: Big picture, in small bits
Audio: Omicron futures, blue-collar furies, Reality+. Essays: Richard Rorty & Postmillenials
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The end of the world (pass the remote)
You’d think a death-drive was gripping Hollywood this Xmas. Actually, it might be a life-drive. Just in time.
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Omnipedia #25: Accelerate or die!, intelligence at all levels, Orwell's hidden (and prophetic) wife, & more
Including: James Lovelock is not cheery, the world China is building, soft lefties and healing mensches
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Omnipedia #27: When the lights go on in AI, when fossil-fuel lying liars lie, when Nick Cave gives you creative lessons, & more
Including: Post-photography experiments (featuring giant vegetables), some tremblings in the Scotgeist, and sheer planning filth
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