Here's my newest article for @Truthdig. It covers issues like why the pursuit and realization of a TESCREAL utopia would almost certainly be catastrophic for most of humanity, and the different ways that "existential risk" could be defined. Take a gander!
https://t.co/1ZAZGx8eVt
@MikeHudema Why does this video keep getting shared .. I agree with the sentiment but it's impractical and unpleasant as hell to have a bike lane in the middle of a freeway. Bike infrastructure can be simpler, better and more useful than this. NL has great examples!
Books, movies, TV, art in general, are best when they reveal as a medium a basic human connectedness and spark that reminds us of our interdependence.
The AI art boom is antithetical to that. It’s production of a synthetic drug that distracts from what art is supposed to be.
the Luddites were 100% correct about everything but you'd never know it because the standard narrative about them is mostly fake and misrepresents both their concerns AND the outcomes of the changes they were concerned about
My debut at @Slate: Venture capitalists are parasites who couldn't be trusted with the financial institution that held up their industry, let alone the direction of our technological development. Euthanizing them is imperative if we want a better world.
https://t.co/FyHocUXEX0