December 2011
7 posts
“By some estimates there are twenty million microbial genes in your body: about a...”
– The Human Lake | The Loom | Discover Magazine
“…this is very likely to lead to an AGI [artificial general intelligence]...”
– The Multiverse According to Ben: My Goal as an AGI Researcher
buzz:
“We played the spot once, and when it finished, Jobs said, “It sucks! I hate it! It’s advertising agency ****! I thought you were going to write something like ‘Dead Poets Society!’ This is crap!” Clow said something like, “Well, I take it you don’t want to see it again.” And Steve continued to go on a rant about how we should get the writers from “Dead Poets Society” or some “real writers”...
For some, the wise traditions of natural life rebel against the cold touch of technology, against its military heritage, the suffering and imperialism that formed its cradle. But, when studied from within, it reveals itself as another kind of natural life, one that has extruded from us, as it were; we nurtured it while thinking we were accomplishing other goals. And it must be acknowledged as one...
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i had this thought today during lunch about how terrible smartphones are. they’re the pinnacle of our technology… which means that of all the things we create, they’re the most thoroughly dependent on our system of Earth exploitation.
as the novelty wears off of previous generations of technology — clothing, jewelry, fossil fuel energy, food production, etc....
Revisiting The True Weight of Things →
The Aporeticus: A Problem with Path →
mills:
Path is an impossibly beautiful social-network and app for the iPhone and Android; it’s the sort of software one daydreams about creating, replete with delightful surprises and deeply-considered design. Quite apart from its many visual flourishes, some of its nicest touches reflect enormous…
