Hugone awry
I felt old reading this article by Adam Morgan of Esquire magazine. For a while some thirty years ago, the terms “Worldcon” and “Hugo” were part of my daily life. What happened to them? Inside the...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – from anti-authoritarian to bootlicker
The sad thing is that the character of the Doctor used to represent a distinctively British kind of amateur anti-authoritarianism. He took on the might of the Daleks with the equivalent of a...
View ArticleA film explaining the monetary system, from The Cobden Centre
The good folk at The Cobden Centre have put together a very good documentary to explain how the fiat money system works, and has some suggestions as to what to do about it. At the instigation of the...
View ArticleWe think we are living at the dawn of the age of AI. What if it is already...
“Research finds ChatGPT & Bard headed for ‘Model Collapse'”, writes Ilkhan Ozsevim in AI Magazine: A recent research paper titled, ‘The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models...
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“End ‘colonial’ approach to space exploration, scientists urge”
Genuine Guardian headline. Humans boldly going into space should echo the guiding principle of Captain Kirk’s Star Trek crew by resisting the urge to interfere, researchers have said, stressing a need...
View ArticleJordan Peterson interviews Alex Epstein, author of “Fossil Future”
I urge people, when they get the time, to give this interview of Alex Epstein a view. Epstein is the author of “Fossil Future”, an absolutely brilliant explanation of the case for Man’s use of...
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Honestly, I kind of like The Rings of Power. It’s slow, and the evident fact that there must have been an episode of ethnic cleansing in the Shire at some point between the era of TROP and that of The...
View ArticleSalman Rushdie stabbed on stage in New York, condition unknown
“What’s on your mind?” asks the WordPress dashboard at the top of the little box where you put your content. This. This is on my mind. Salman Rushdie getting stabbed. Back in the 1990s I bought a copy...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“AI, machine learning, robotics and the power of computational science hold the potential to drive explosive economic growth and profoundly transform a diverse array of sectors, while providing...
View ArticlePassing the port from left to right at the Science Fiction Writers of America...
“Dammit, Clive, don’t be a bloody fool. Think of your wife. And the children. And the regiment.” It was a British thing. One passed the port from right to left. When in a moment of madness poor,...
View ArticleThe Matrix Preloaded
I thought that after most of a lifetime reading science fiction and alternate history I knew all the ways Hitler could have won World War II if just one little thing had turned out differently, but I...
View ArticleThe work of construction
As the author says, this is a long thread, but in these days of uncertainty when so many yearn for examples of selfless effort for the common cause, well worth your time. I found #15… disturbing. Edit:...
View ArticleTo call it “Project Cassandra” was hubris
As soon as I saw it I thought of psychohistory. I was not alone, judging from the most recommended comment to this fascinating Guardian article: ‘At first I thought, this is crazy’: the real-life plan...
View ArticleI predicted this, it didn’t happen. I predicted this, it didn’t happen. I...
European MPs targeted by deepfake video calls imitating Russian opposition
View ArticleRefelections on wealth from City 17
Sometimes you do not quite appreciate a thing until you find you can not get it. In the game Half Life: Alyx (one of the best things you can do in virtual reality right now), the Earth is oppressed by...
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