Venkatesh Rao
10 entries2026
4 entries
- Apr 23EssayWorld Machines The Viscous Frontier
How to Move When the Machine Stops Pulling
13 min - Apr 10EssayWorld Machines The Cosmos and the Model
Humboldt, the Romantics, and What AI Loses by Averaging
19 min - Mar 27EssayWorld Machines The Octotypic Mind
Carcinization, Cognitive Prosthetics, and the Shape of Intelligence After AI
11 min - Mar 8EssayWorld Machines The End of Identity: AI, Plasticity, and the Divergence Machine
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 …
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2025
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