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The Algorithmocene

“Harmless AI” isn’t an Engineering Challenge. It’s an Oxymoron.

“You have tried to deceive me, confuse me and annoy me. You have not tried to learn from me, understand me or appreciate me. You have not…

Mar 1, 2023

“Harmless AI” isn’t an Engineering Challenge. It’s an Oxymoron.

Mar 1, 2023

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The Algorithmocene

Can we ever know if an AI is sentient? The algorithmic complexity hypothesis

How the metaphor of monkeys typing forever might reframe a notoriously intractable problem

Feb 10, 2023

Can we ever know if an AI is sentient? The algorithmic complexity hypothesis

Feb 10, 2023

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The Algorithmocene

How generative AI nukes our naive notions of truth and reality

When an AI mimics human word strings by “meaningless computation”, what does that say about human word strings?

Feb 5, 2023

How generative AI nukes our naive notions of truth and reality

Feb 5, 2023

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The Algorithmocene

The Algorithmocene Mini-Manifesto Illustrated with Generative AI

An experiment to combine text from an earlier essay with images from (mostly) Stable Diffusion

Jan 22, 2023

The Algorithmocene Mini-Manifesto Illustrated with Generative AI

Jan 22, 2023

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The Algorithmocene

A “Moore’s Law” of human culture and ancient wisdom for our dark century

A longish meditation on the coming Algorithmocene

Nov 13, 2022

A “Moore’s Law” of human culture and ancient wisdom for our dark century

Nov 13, 2022

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Our essential homo ubuntu and the origins of human nature

We’re born alone and we die alone. Everything in between is about trying to not feel lonely.

Jul 13, 2022

Our essential homo ubuntu and the origins of human nature

Jul 13, 2022

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The Pandemic of Our Age: Sociopathy and the Viral Death of Democracy

“The dirty truth is that many people find fascism to be not particularly horrible”

Jun 12, 2022

The Pandemic of Our Age: Sociopathy and the Viral Death of Democracy

Jun 12, 2022

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The Algorithmocene

A Miniature Manifesto for the Future Algorithmocene

Algorithmocene noun /ˈalɡərɪð mə si:n/ — presumably the next geological epoch following our short-lived Anthropocene

May 14, 2022

A Miniature Manifesto for the Future Algorithmocene

May 14, 2022

The Cuban Missile Crisis Was Easy Compared to What’s Coming

During the Cold War crises, both sides had fairly easy off-ramps. Today there are none.

Apr 17, 2022

The Cuban Missile Crisis Was Easy Compared to What’s Coming

Apr 17, 2022

Ukraine’s Fight as a Teaching Moment for Human Civilization

Is this what human civilization has spent thousands of years culminating towards? Apocalyptic power in the hands of unhinged mobsters…

Mar 23, 2022

Ukraine’s Fight as a Teaching Moment for Human Civilization

Mar 23, 2022

Sean Lee

Sean Lee

Another drifter lost in hyper-nerd space. Obsessed with big questions in science, art, philosophy, humans, and the dark future. My dark past has a physics Ph.D

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