Andrei Stoica

If a simplistic description of AI is computers learning to be more human, then the persistence of Hawk Tuah for six months and counting is the inverse: Humans learning how it feels to be a computer—forced to remember, unable to move on, endlessly consuming and regurgitating our past output in slightly different formats—a video here, a podcast there... See more

I wrote recently in a tweet that there’s a rarity from technologist to say whether a thing is good or not. Instead they repeat that it is inevitable, and their actions show that they believe they should financially benefit from and “steer” that inevitability. That is a politically bankrupt position.

Long before AI, philosopher Martin Heidegger anticipated this transformation.

In The Question Concerning Technology, Martin Heidegger warned that technology is not just a collection of tools, but a way of seeing the world, a revealing that both illuminates and conceals. Heidegger’s “enframing” (Gestell) describes technology’s insidious power to fra... See more

It is not a critical approach towards values, policy, nor the subsequent consequences of these artifacts. We experience our political landscape through the veneer of our “ discourse interfaces” (that’s a Reggie phrase) .