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Your degree is worthless (and losing value by the day)
Credential inflation started more than two centuries ago. AI is going to nuke the field. All fields. This is just the last act.
May 2
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Your degree is worthless (and losing value by the day)
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You think that AI is destroying art and meaning because you don't know history (or technology)
The Neo-Luddite rhetoric takes many shapes. The complaints about "Ghiblification" is merely the latest permutation.
Mar 28
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You think that AI is destroying art and meaning because you don't know history (or technology)
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The transgender industry is incoherent
This is a diatribe against the establishment, not trans people
Mar 25
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The transgender industry is incoherent
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Prepare to become totally irrelevant (even though you already are and always have been)
AI will totally destroy your way of life, and you're not ready. History shows exactly how this will shake out. I do have some good news, though.
Mar 16
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The River and the Garden
Some thoughts on how to approach life as we approach the Singularity
Feb 8
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Nebula Protocol: How Decentralization Might Solve Everything
AI is coming and the world isn't ready for it... and why I'm so hot for Triple Entry Ledgers
Oct 31, 2024
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Nebula Protocol: How Decentralization Might Solve Everything
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Should AI be used in art? (Yes)
Technology always expands art, even if it upsets some people first. Let's take both a historical and first principles (mathematical) view of writing…
Oct 16, 2024
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Should AI be used in art? (Yes)
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