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AI and the End of the Human Writer

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In this notion of distributed intelligence, there is something both democratizing and destabilizing—a sneaky but egalitarian...
In this notion of distributed intelligence, there is something both democratizing and destabilizing—a sneaky but egalitarian mode of murdering the author. Tenen insists, though, that we shouldn’t agonize too much over the source of intelligence. Who cares if our thinking is closer to the synthesis of LLMs, rather th...

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The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco

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On a Friday night in late January, the leader of a famed San Francisco venture capital...
On a Friday night in late January, the leader of a famed San Francisco venture capital firm got drunk and launched into a profanity-laced tirade on social media. Garry Tan, the Y Combinator CEO currently spearheading a tech-funded campaign to seize control of the city’s government, spent his long, strange night bein...

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Balaji Srinivasan calls for tech to "exit democracy" and seize local governments

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To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take...
To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan. Before you do, steel yourself for what’s to come: A normal person could easily mistake his rambling train wrecks of thought for a crackpot’s ravings, but inf...

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Mind-Blowing Story of How a Top Israeli Spy Chief Blew His Cover

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With social media, location services, tracking cookies, and all kinds of personal identifiers on the internet...
With social media, location services, tracking cookies, and all kinds of personal identifiers on the internet these days, it can be hard to protect your privacy. But you’d think a national security professional would know better. As it turns out, one of Israel’s top spy chiefs does not. Yossi Sariel has accidentally...

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Oil Executives Are Getting Refreshingly Honest These Days

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For the last few years, oil and gas industry executives have talked a big game about...
For the last few years, oil and gas industry executives have talked a big game about their commitment to an “energy transition”—not their own transition, necessarily, so much as a coming global zeitgeist whose arrival they anticipate. Corporate leaders didn’t provide many details about what exactly would be transiti...

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Evangelicals Use Digital Surveillance to Target the Unconverted

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Flaubert versus the World

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The last time I tried to “teach” Madame Bovary was in an advanced undergraduate course at...
The last time I tried to “teach” Madame Bovary was in an advanced undergraduate course at a London university, and I had expected better results. The students either hated it or found it “boring,” and even when they did “sort of like” it, they hated the central character and said things like: “How can I like someone...

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Mind-Blowing Story of How a Top Israeli Spy Chief Blew His Cover

Oil Executives Are Getting Refreshingly Honest These Days

Evangelicals Use Digital Surveillance to Target the Unconverted

Flaubert versus the World