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The Singularity Already Happened; We Got Corporations
quietbabylon: One of my favourite recurring tropes of AI speculation/singulatarian deep time thinking is mediations on how an evil AI or similar might destroy us. Here’s a recent example, Ross Anderson on human extinction as quoted/linked by Kottke. It’s a discussion about how a benign AI might be poorly designed and lead to our downfall.…
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The rise of Barcade
jkottke: For Polygon, Simon Parkin writes about how Barcade came about and where it’s going. Younger gamers are, in a sense, both the secret to Barcade’s success and its great ongoing threat. More than players like Chien and the older pros, Barcade attracts young local patrons typical of the Brooklyn bar scene. For many of…
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3D PRINTING ON THE FRONTLINES — ARMY DEPLOYING $2.8M MOBILE FABRICATION LABS
3D PRINTING ON THE FRONTLINES — ARMY DEPLOYING $2.8M MOBILE FABRICATION LABS kadrey: “…The ability to rapidly evolve solutions from conception to implementation has become a reality with the Expeditionary Lab Mobile (ELM). The 20-foot container comes equipped with 3D printers, computer-assisted milling machines, and laser, plasma, and water cutters, along with common tools like…
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MFA student Mario Zoots curates!
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What lessons can videogames learn, even from a rudimentary understanding of art history? For starters, there are no unified field theories of art. The pursuit of a pure, single account of art in any medium is a lost cause. Instead, the history of art has been one of disruption and reinvention, one of conflicting trends…