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Enormous subjects are best approached in thin, deep slices. I discovered this when first learning how to program. The textbooks never worked; it all o

We require heroism of our entertainers. We want them sacrificing themselves to a certain ultimate degree of input. No one can sing this loud, and yet

I often wonder why musicians don’t seem more alarmed by the rise of these songwriting generators. But perhaps I am hopelessly out of touch with how th

We require heroism of our entertainers. We want them sacrificing themselves to a certain ultimate degree of input. No one can sing this loud, and yet

Underestimating something that has an AI “accent” by reflexively dismissing it as slop rhymes curiously with underestimating someone because they have

The Hugging Face Incident is, in a distorted and dangerous way, an illustration of what the AI companies are trying to achieve. They want long-running

I continue to believe that, for all its convenience, streaming threatens to wipe out a rewardingly inefficient, friction-filled, locked-in, ritualisti

A tool that shields us from the friction of the work is compelling, but if we don’t experience the friction, we will never change the work.

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.

People ask whether I ever feel bad. Usually this happens after someone learns the books are rare, so I explain that rarity is really just an inventory

Enormous subjects are best approached in thin, deep slices. I discovered this when first learning how to program. The textbooks never worked; it all o

I want to push for the idea that a record doesn’t have to mean something. That the point of music isn’t always to decode it and extract meaning from i

I continue to believe that, for all its convenience, streaming threatens to wipe out a rewardingly inefficient, friction-filled, locked-in, ritualisti

A person spends years trying to become beautiful online. They finally achieve the exact face, body, lifestyle, and aesthetic they once fantasized abou

Co-Star’s co-founder Banu Guler says in an interview, “The crux of feeling like a human is being able to talk about your reality.”

There’s an old Irish saying that the only way to keep a secret between three people is to kill two of them

Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.

It turns out that the best place for personal AIs to run is on a computer. Maybe a virtual computer in the cloud, but ideally your computer. That way

Today working on a phone or laptop is associated with upper-middle-class knowledge work. In ten years, it will be a kind of low-status, blue-collar, m

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by far the most useful preventative medical advice that I've ever received has come from unleashing coding agents on my genome, having them investigat

It turns out that the best place for personal AIs to run is on a computer. Maybe a virtual computer in the cloud, but ideally your computer. That way

James’ extensive and outstanding work as an editor has never been recognised. It started early: in his introduction to the revised edition of The Addi

the fact that everything is ‘possibly’ fake and inconvenient or expensive to consider, means that most people just stop trusting most things as true (

The hyperreal doesn’t mimic or imitate reality. It replaces reality altogether, making it nearly impossible for us to determine what is real, what isn

When we die we always leave things unfinished.

I want to write when I've had a strange thought on a train, or when I'm working something out and writing it down is the only way to do it. Without it

When I look at a lot of what I’ve been writing for the last few years it’s infrequent and too often about things and not enough of what I think about

A single person armed with Stripe, Shopify, cloud software, automated bookkeeping, and now AI can do what once required a small staff. Dynamism had be