Posts tagged with Social
Moving at the Speed of Information
"The world is moving faster than ever…", and all of its paraphrased clichés, have become a personal pet peeve. It shows up in business articles, podcasts, and plenty of advertising, to trigger a sense of anxiety and uncertainty…
Gawking at the AI Zoo
Recently, Moltbook made the rounds in tech circles for experimenting with agentic AI societies. It's a social network populated by AI agents, built as an experiment to see how autonomous agents interact and what types of unusual behaviors…
Review: New Money
The thesis is right there in the title. New Money: How Payment Became Social Media: Swartz, Lana: 9780300233223: Amazon.com: BooksNew Money: How Payment Became Social Media [Swartz, Lana] on Amazon.com. FREE shipping on qualifying offers. New Money: How…
Pining for a Simpler Internet
It could have been mere coincidence. As I was settling into an evening of going through saved articles on Matter[1], I noticed that much of modern online discourse frames our present state of technology as the nadir of social…
AI De-Identity
Of all the use cases for AI, the one that feels the most dystopian, Black Mirror -esque is its ability to replicate personalities. Companies like character.ai already offer models trained on historical personas and celebrities, but a research paper…
Feedback Void
There is a certain allure to someone who marches to the beat of their own drum. Framed negatively, it's stubbornness or a refusal to heed the warning of others; positively, it's harboring deep conviction and blazing…
