Bookmarked: Substack writers, you need a website! Every few years there are imploring shouts that people should have their websites. Unfortunately they lead to nothing, but I’m glad it happens, I’m …

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Would we be really happy if it were an AI that we sent out into the universe and it made first contact with other intelligences? Would we count that as first contact? Certainly it’s difficult to think of the Mars rovers as making first contact, but AI, even in its current rudimentary form might be acceptable. Which …

Bookmarked: Em dashes are fucking amazing Working with AI helped me actually learn punctuation because clarity makes better prompts. Reading em-dashes in text helped me understand em-dashes. Now I use …

In the age of AI, evolutionary theory will become a critical cultural and business theory. This is because evolution is concerned with observed life. Life is essentially information that folds upon itself and stories play out on that manifold. AI makes it important not so much to be first in culture or technology, but …