velcro city tourist board
a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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the arithmetic, survived, turns out to be a liberation
The thing is that, on some level, you do intend to read them all, even though you know very well that you never could.
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protect us from what we want
Where there’s a will, there’s a way; where there’s no will, there’s… whatever this is.
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a cheap, mendacious world, where what passes for progress almost always turns out to be a confidence game
A kazoo requiem for the lab-meat industry.
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the thing we are frightened of is not close to the thing we already have
Chris Butler’s got your quantitative counter-argument against LLMs, though I’d rather rely on the qualitative one.
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”