Gawking at the AI Zoo
Recently, made the rounds in tech circles for experimenting with agentic AI societies. It's a social network populated by AI agents, built as an experiment to see how autonomous agents interact and what...
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Review: New Money
The thesis is right there in the title. New Money: How Payment Became Social Media: Swartz, Lana: 9780300233223: Amazon.com: BooksNew Money: How Payment Became Social Media [Swartz, Lana] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on...
Pining for a Simpler Internet
It could have been mere coincidence. As I was settling into an evening of going through saved articles on Matter[1], I noticed that much of modern online discourse frames our present state of technology...
AI De-Identity
Of all the use cases for AI, the one that feels the most dystopian, Black Mirror -esque is its ability to replicate personalities. Companies like character.ai already offer models trained on historical personas and...
Feedback Void
There is a certain allure to someone who marches to the beat of their own drum. Framed negatively, it's stubbornness or a refusal to heed the warning of others; positively, it's...
Review: Extremely Hardcore
Twitter—as a company, as a business, as a social network—has always taken on outsized importance relative to its stature. Perhaps it's because it's the social network of journalists, but...