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The World Bank on the energy transition in low- and middle-income countries: to solve the lack of sandwiches, get bread and ham
The World Bank’s report on the energy transition on low- and middle-income countries (Scaling Up to Phase Down) makes for…
New short story: “Educational Software”
The Black Box upside down (meaning exposure, vulnerability, lack of power; that which is optimized for somebody else’s benefit) Her…
Enshittification, accounting… and email?
Cory Doctorow’s enshittification model of platform development can be conceptualized as a repeated two-step move: Companies reward you for doing…
The AI killer app isn’t answers, it’s questions
To understand the scale of the upcoming speed-up in research itself, you can do worse than to look at this…
New short story: “The Plot”
The setting was beautiful enough to slightly warm even the heart of a well-paid script hack. “I’m not much for…
What I mean when I say “written without an AI”
I wrote this without an AI. This isn’t because I oppose the technology: I design and build them for a…
New short story: “Night and Rain were the Local Optimum”
Her online life, which means her life, was a Noir tragedy: so it had been decreed by the impersonal Fates…
The new scarcity value of creative theory
The nearly universal soul-searching about the impact of AI-driven google-and-paraphrase on the competitiveness of companies and professionals indicates, if nothing…
New short story: “A Sense of Identity”
When the doors opened you were so surprised you almost didn’t take off the neural reading crown. The machine couldn’t…
An SteampunkGPT thought experiment
“Neurons” in a neural network aren’t very neuron-like. The historical inspiration is there, but in practice each of them is…