Alex Dobrenko

I saw pornstars, paraplegics, pretend slaves, actual homeless, cancer patients, war refugees, and waves of teenagers all competing for roses in a weird new economy, each privately praying for an algorithm to change their life. More than half acted like robots, too. I couldn’t make sense of it all in real-time, I was just a stenographer at the... See more

You forgot it for years while you lived in the city. But here it is: that one day in July when it storms but the water is lukewarm and you tumble inside the waves. You lose yourself in the sensation of being a body submerged in another body. Your back against the concrete pillar under the pier; the waves cresting, crashing over you—you can do this... See more

The second thing to keep in mind about AIs is that their ability to answer questions is probably the least important thing about them. Getting answers is how we will use them at first, but their real power is in something we call spatial intelligence – their ability to simulate, render, generate, and manage the 3D world. It is a genuine superpower... See more

If you were the same age that you are right now, but it was the year 1994, what do you think you would be doing with your life?

Reducing the internet to social media is like going to the library and only browsing the horror section.