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SCIENCE FICTION IDEAS TAO LIN It was October 2042 and Lydia was trying to remember if she’d ever known with certainty whether the chicken or the egg came first.
Terraform
Brian Merchant and Claire L. Evans
We must understand the fatalistic submission of the UK’s population to austerity as the consequence of a deliberately cultivated depression.
Good for Nothing - Mark Fisher
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But for generative models there are no remainders. They can’t feel their way toward a meaning. They can’t have aesthetic ideas or make artworks in the sense that Bernstein means, so they can’t redistribute artistic capability. They don’t create works that figure freedom, or exemplify, in Bernstein’s words, “people making sense in ways that follow no existing rules of sense-making.” They don’t elude reification or hold out utopian promise that something can exceed exchange value.
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
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