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  • Petervan’s Delicacies – 19 Aug 2022

    As usual, an incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About an alternative to Bentham’s panopticon: a distributed, polyvalent, multi-modal network of synthetic intelligences. By Stephanie Sherman About how reality and media consumption increasingly resembles the act of playing an alternate reality game. By Jon Askonas About the… Read more

  • Petervan’s Ride – July 2022

    Petervan’s Ride July 2022 > starting the fourth year of Rides > Only 33 songs this month, summer vacation I guess > mostly new releases > play in shuffle mode for more surprise Read more

  • Parallel Grooves

    Picture generated by DALL-E It all started with Vankatesh Rao’s “Future Tables” post last week, with the subtitle “We don’t want future visions, we want future tables”. Venkat introduced the concept of “temporal potential groove”. I added the following comment to his post: “I enjoyed this one very much. You have written so much about… Read more

  • Petervan’s Delicacies – 20 July 2022

    As usual, an incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About the vulgarity of tech leaders and those who enable them. By Scott Galloway Why the brain is not like a computer, the mind is not like a computer program, and consciousness is not computation. By Joe Antognini… Read more

  • Petervan’s Ride – June 2022

    Petervan Ride June 2022 > mostly new releases and some oldies > from ambient by Alanis Morissette to Brussels Rap by Stikstof > play in shuffle mode recommended > enjoy Read more

  • Petervan’s Delicacies – 5 June 2022

    As usual, an incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy! About desired, timeless, and moral futures. By Phoebe Tickell About the effect of OpenAI’s GPT-3 on the modern concept of the human and the philosophical disruptions they provoke: can we liberate AI from the concept of the human… Read more