Severin Matusek
@severinmatusek
Writer and strategist, founder of co—matter
co-matter.comSeverin Matusek
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user.
Macmillan • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
technology and globalization have changed our information streams and our patterns of life drastically enough that the ways we calibrate around incoming information are becoming increasingly dangerous for us,
Everyone’s Existential Crisis
“Don’t die,” says Bryan Johnson, “100 years is not enough.” But death is the only reason attention matters—and by extension, art.
Attention is what makes us human
Participation. The token gives me permission to participate in the project and/or its culture, in whatever way that may be defined.
Severin Matusek • A Theory of Value
pplx-at-work.pdf
r2cdn.perplexity.aiAI is aggregated human intelligence. So it’s better to call it collective intelligence than artificial intelligence.
Emphasizing the collectivity (something built on the commons) over the artificiality (a feat of technology) gives us an entire new way to see, perceive and relate to the technology.
-via Holly Herndon, in conversation with Ezra Klein
There is no realm of life that is unsloppable.
archive.ph
Zines are anarchist content-sharing. AI is opposite.
KittyNDisguise • How do You Feel About AI?
Yancey Strickler argues that the way we see our self influences what we perceive as valuable - a concept he further expands through Metalabel and his idea of post-individualism.