How to Move When the Machine Stops Pulling

Humboldt, the Romantics, and What AI Loses by Averaging

Carcinization, Cognitive Prosthetics, and the Shape of Intelligence After AI

Over the past year, the Contraptions club has been reading through history—from Giordano Bruno and Montaigne to Spinoza, Adam Smith, and Hume. We are now using using Venkatesh Rao’s Divergence Machine …

I. The Wall and the Infinite # It is possible that the history of the modern West hinges on a single, melancholic misreading of Voltaire. When Candide, exhausted by the Lisbon earthquake and the …