_technology, simulation, and the machine

Emerging thoughts and ideas about the emerging and seeming self-constitution of what technology is becoming.

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Technology and its Discontents: belief in an age when science has demystified everything, and why "we should all have read Baudrillard."

Existential Anxiety around the Advancements in Large Language Models: a study of LLMs that "scheme", and what it mirrors in how people communicate.
2025-01-04: 3 Body Problem, and the capacity to lie as a measure of a machine's humanity.
on the compulsion to search for novel ideas: the feed trades intention for a false sense of serendipity.
on passionate online reactions: human reaction turned into data and money, and rage-bait as its sharpest form.
on twitter drama_no.1: the crowd's appetite for an online feud.
we breathe critique and we're so bad at it: meta-criticism as a defence for critical thinking in the age of AI.
on Companion (2025): love and robots, the same questions put into a film.