"If only, the argument went, you could discover the exact opposite territory — not literally; that was in the middle of the ocean, but some sort of training-data antonym in latent space — and the exact set of tweaks to make to the training code, the Antimap would emerge at the Antipode, and begin its … Continue reading The Map by Venkatesh Rao
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The Internet of Beefs
"We are not beefing endlessly because we do not desire peace or because we do not know how to engineer peace. We are beefing because we no longer know who we are, each of us individually, and collectively as a species. Knight and mook alike are faced with the terrifying possibility that if there is … Continue reading The Internet of Beefs
A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
"...a reality that serves many purposes presents itself as illegible to a vision informed by a singular purpose." —Venkatesh Rao, "A Big Little Idea Called Legibility." Ribbonfarm.com. July 26, 2010.
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