Alex Dobrenko

1/? the (abridged) story of Curt Herzstark, the brilliant Viennese engineer who invented an incredibly complex handheld mechanical calculator in the Buchenwald concentration camp

"Go deeper and weirder and make something that is so human and so strange that it can't be duplicated by an algorithm."

Yet, even without the Deep State conspiracy bait, there’s a sense of fact blurring into fiction, where the rational and technoscientific paradigms disintegrate – a freaky collision of accelerationism and psychedelic renaissance that, with Pluto entering the constellation last year, I’m calling the internet’s Age of Aquarius. It’s the dawn of a new... See more

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Creative endeavors are inspiring because the scope of the problem often feels bigger than your capacity to solve it. But because you find that problem so worthwhile, you’re willing to put in the effort required to provide the best solution possible. Through this process, you become a more capable person, which allows you to address more worthwhile... See more

The internet’s hot-start problem has already been called by other names — Total Noise, Present Shock, The Shallows, the Digital Maginot Line, the Age of Acceleration. Framing the internet’s problem as a hot-start problem isn’t to appropriate someone else’s analysis but to take a contrarian approach to a popular Silicon Valley framing — the... See more

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