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2025-05-25 Westenberg - web as infrastructure
Joan Westenberg - May 24, 2025 a few excerpts: >... I think we're living through the same kind of transition right now, except instead of the telegraph disrupting newspapers, Al agents are disrupting the web. ... But Al agents are a new "user" type: [...]

From An Essay on Waiting
APAvar: Köhler, Andrea Year: 2017. _Passing Time : an Essay on Waiting_. Upper West Side Philosophers. Link: I am reading "An Essay on Waiting" by Andrea Köhler, and in a section called "The Lagoon of Dreams", [...]

David Roberts - narratives all the way down
David Roberts ‪@volts.wtf‬ May 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM The political theory behind IRA was roughly as follows: We have lost control of the information landscape and can no longer win rhetorical or purely political battles; however, if we make substantive [...]

Yuval Harari - NEXUS
APAvar: Yuval Noah Harari (2024). _Nexus: A brief history of information networks from the Stone Age to AI._ Random House. Link: My review: Harari is concerned about [...]

Al Has a Critical Flaw
Shubhransh Rai Published in Quantum Information Review • Mar 6, 2025 AI is not intelligent in the way we think it is. It is a probability machine. • It does not think. It predicts. • It does not reason. It associates patterns. • It does not create. It [...]