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You see — if software is to have soul, it must feel more like the world around it. Which is the biggest clue of all that feeling is what’s missing from today’s software. Because the value of the tools, objects, and artworks that we as humans have surrounded ourselves with for thousands of years goes so far beyond their functionality. In many ways,

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Artificial Neural Networks map complex information to reduced forms so those forms can be learnt and recompiled in order to make decisions about unknown, incoming data. If you’re willing to nerd out with me for a bit: don’t you think money is like the one-dimensional output of a rather poor performing neural network? The output is so far removed... See more

Value, in an economic sense, is theoretically created by new things based on new ideas. But when the material basis for these new things is missing or actively deteriorating and profits must be made, what is there to be done? Retreat to the immaterial and work with what already exists: meaning.

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SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES

In the ever present Twitter meme of “the same people that pivoted to web3 are now pivoting to AI” — I find it quite dangerous that folks don’t genuinely hold on to a few core questions that fulfill them. Instead it seems that many of us are willing to blow wherever the clout winds might most accumulate to our sails.

Now, the... See more