Give the Nobel Prize in Literature to Dril | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7245/give-the-nobel-prize-to-dril
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The problem with AI ethics - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/3/18293410/ai-artificial-intelligence-ethics-boards-charters-problem-big-tech
Baba Is You review: one of the best puzzle games in years - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2019/3/13/18263824/baba-is-you-review-nintendo-switch-pc
Band name of the day: spitehouse
The Deep Social Justice Roots of The Twilight Zone | Tor.com https://www.tor.com/2019/03/28/the-deep-social-justice-roots-of-the-twilight-zone/
Band name of the day: horse dope sensation
Don’t Be Afraid is a fantastic album, & it’s not hurt by the fact that every track other than Ozar Midrashim & The White Roses sounds the same – instead this is thematically appropriate.
Information Society “Growing Up With Shiva” Live - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Iw6TfwdDSs
Ragel State Machine Compiler http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/
The Guys Seeking DIY Chemical Castration - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-guys-seeking-diy-chemical-castration
Band name of the day: cockroach milk
Band name of the day: mystic eyes of death perception
SnackWell’s History: Eat More, They’re Healthy https://tedium.co/2019/04/02/snackwells-history-low-fat-cookies/
The moment I decide to get serious about something, that’s when all progress on it stops :(
Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5
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Band name of the day: temple of sleep
A depiction, if rich enough to be interesting, is bound to have internally contradictory potential interpretations. You control the frame, but the frame can’t be as tight as in (say) an essay.
If one intends to be understood, one must be careful not to be too clever: a reader will calibrate their cleverness based on their expectation of yours, & any mismatch is liable to produce misunderstanding.
What’s the difference between poetry and prose? I’d say that with prose, one aims to constrain the set of possible meanings as tightly as possible to minimize misunderstanding. Poetry has the richness of possible meanings that direct experience has.
GitHub - scipr-lab/zexe: Rust library for decentralized private computation https://github.com/scipr-lab/zexe
Hot take: language is like sculpture, in that each word acts as a constraint that cleaves off parts of the infinite space of possible meaning.
The Corporations Devouring American Colleges - The Huffington Post https://www.huffpost.com/highline/article/capitalist-takeover-college/
Band name of the day: tubed meats
If you’re a writer & you don’t read, your readers will notice (even if you don’t). And those of them who read will start to dwindle away…
Day by day I get closer and closer to being the guy who sea-lions strangers about how the USSR wasn’t communist. I don’t want to be this guy. Please help me not be this guy, by learning it on your own.
Bad idea of the day: a soap opera that is also a space opera AND a rock opera
Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/14/gwerns-ai-generated-poetry/
Genetics and Eugenics in Frank Herbert’s Dune - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Dune-genetics
Book Review: Inventing The Future | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/18/book-review-inventing-the-future/
Space Exploration History: The Space Shuttle and the Horse’s Rear End http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html
Russia wants to cut itself off from the global internet. Here’s what that really means. - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613138/russia-wants-to-cut-itself-off-from-the-global-internet-heres-what-that-really-means/
hot take: any apparent non-agent capable of outside revision is, implicitly, part of an agentitive system whose goal is its continued existence
Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs: The Power of Agency - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Tool-AI
Bad idea of the day: vending machine art project that takes bills & sets them on fire as you watch through a little window
‘Scanners Live in Vain’ as realistic SF - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Scanners
Big Rural - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kp4bv/big-rural
The Neural Net Tank Urban Legend - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Tanks
Million Short - What haven’t you found? https://www.millionshort.com/
Internet Search Tips - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Search
Band name of the day: mechanical sympathy
I’m only making business card sized games now | Killed By A Pixel http://frankforce.com/?p=5826
GitHub - bacook17/acronym: ACRONYM (Acronym CReatiON for You and Me) https://github.com/bacook17/acronym
Band name of the day: special information advantage
Even if Bigfoot isn’t real, we still need him “ High Country News https://www.hcn.org/articles/essays-even-if-bigfoot-isnt-real-we-still-need-him
Ads Written By the Guy From Your Poetry MFA Who’s In Marketing Now - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ads-written-by-the-guy-from-your-poetry-mfa-whos-in-marketing-now
Band name of the day: Harry Humanoid
We need a third Captain Marvel who’s literally just Jack Parsons.