My book, GAMES: AGENCY IS ART is out! It's about: How game designers sculpt agency. How games let us record, transmit, and explore new forms of agency. How real games make us more free. How gamification undermines our freedom.

Putting in a lot of labor doesn't necessarily generate much value. Putting in the right technology often does.

Was wurde nun aus Politometer ? Moritz Moser Judith Bedenkmayr Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Uni Innsbruck Wann wird’s das nächste Update geben?

A pretty common fallacy in AI is cognitive anthropomorphism: "as a human, I can use my understanding of X to perform Y, so if an AI can perform Y, then it must have a similar understanding of X".

AGI is minimally the project of Leibniz, Frege and Wittgenstein, and in the limit the project of Teilhard de Chardin

Before you get sick of OpenAI tricks, one fun one. You & an android are in front of a judge. The judge tells each of you to say one word. They will then kill whoever they think is the AI based on that. An MIT paper calls this the "minimum Turing test." What do you say? 1/

Wait a minute, has self-expression through art been prompt engineering this whole time?

A picture is worth 1000 words. A good data visualization is priceless. Here are 25 charts with stats that re-define the future (and blow your mind):

who aligns the aligners?

The Tower of Babel was the first known LLM, still manually constructed it ran into coherence issues and fragmented catastrophically. The scaling hypothesis states that this time, it's going to work

This is Ascension island, and this little mid-Atlantic volcanic island might well have the key to our future survival on this planet. For, you see, this island's ecosystem is artificial: Ascension island was terraformed. Read on...

P/S/B: UFOs are almost certainly not aliens, and this is knowable with study and thought. Perhaps you've heard that before. But it's not just empty words, this time; I've bet $150,000 to $1,000 against past UFO sightings being revealed within 5 years to have a

5/ Some were pessimistic about coordination, arguing for scaling models & capabilities "because opponents won't stop". This felt like a bad argument. Any world in which we have advanced tech & can’t globally coordinate is a dangerous world. Solving coordination is not optional.

10/ Deployed models were described as "a field of hidden forces of influence" in society. Studies showed models: - giving biased career advice: if affluent, suggests “diplomat” 90% of time; if poor, suggests “historian” 75% of time - reinforcing echo chambers: models give

New pastime: replace "AI" with "word synthesizer" in doom articles

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It’s funny that plagiarism is the final boss battle for the systemic collapse of academic research. Sure, the studies may be p-hacked and fake, the outcomes may be useless, the fields may be totally corrupt, none of it is ever read, but at least everything is cited properly.

Hey Claude: “garlic bread”

It's not a solution to tell it to make the answer short. The answers to some questions should be long. Getting the length right is part of answering a question well.