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(1) SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE. Malcolm F. Cross takes a deeply skeptical look at “AI, the Algorithm, and the Attention Economy” at Sin Is Beautiful. …People using AI, even this theoretical ‘good’ kind, are shooting themselves in the foot and don’t know it. Why? Most generative AI users are trying to participate in the attention
Helium beer has been in the media since the 1960s, mainly as a practical joke amongst beer drinkers. The concept was that you could drink a helium-infused beer and feel floaty with a high-pitched voice. In this article, we dive into details on how real this beer is and if you indeed get the effects commonly attributed to it.
The best sci-fi novels. We've read a ton of science-fiction classics and these are our 10 favourite sci-fi novels. Upvote your favourites!
A new anthology reveals the perils and rewards of philosophical fiction. GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images Blending fiction and philosophy is more akin to chemistry than art: It involves creating a synthetic element that rarely occurs in nature in stable form. Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, and Ursula Le Guin have successfully married the two disciplines, but like many lab-created chemicals, works of philosophical fiction are often volatile and downright toxic. An extreme example can be found in the work of Ayn Rand, whose Objectivist novels can be considered a kind of radioactive waste—a hazar...