Archive - New Cartographies

October 2024

What Is It Like to Be a Smartphone?

Large language models reflect our own idea of intelligence back to us. A true AI would be inscrutable.

Oct 27 •

Haystacks of Needles

Our problem isn't too much noise. It's too much signal.

Oct 20 •

All What Is Delicious to Man

We're ten years away from a world of perfect abundance, and that's where we'll always be.

Oct 17 •

Dead Labor, Dead Speech

What happens when culture becomes an industry's raw material.

Oct 10 •

Introducing Superbloom

Yes, I've written a new book.

Oct 6 •

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