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The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
Maggie Appleton
By scrolling through their phones, and “liking” or attacking stray phrases tweezered from articles that were largely or entirely engineered for that purpose, they believe themselves to be gaining valuable information about the world and becoming smarter, better-informed members of their social group—thereby engaging in an act of self-definition that is increasingly circumscribed by social media platforms, in a closed loop.
The Chained Reader
David Samuels
The Founder comes to personally congratulate us on our accomplishments. I’ve never seen him in person before. He is smaller, frailer than I had imagined. But his skull is on fire. When he speaks, flames spew from his lips. The room is drawn to him.
Terraform
Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans
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