“Delicacies” is my incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks I came across online. Handpicked by a human, no robots, no AI. A form of tripping, wandering, dérivé, with some loosely undefined theme holding them together. Delicacies have no fixed frequency: I hit the publish button when there is enough material. That can be after a week or after 3 months. No pressure, literally. Enjoy!

Some highlights from this edition:

• The new cool is not needing to be seen – by Mercer Edition – via Nexialist
• Nova Spivack created SocioLife – A Socio-Economic Artificial Life Sim That Runs in your Browser
• About Space DJ, a web application from Magenta that turns music exploration into an interactive journey through a constellation of sounds.

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“Delicacies” is my incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks I came across online. Handpicked by a human, no robots, no AI. A form of tripping, wandering, dérivé, with some loosely undefined theme holding them together. Delicacies have no fixed frequency: I hit the publish button when there is enough material. That can be after a week or after 3 months. No pressure, literally. Just click the image below. Enjoy!

Some highlights from this edition:

• The Audience of One – by Kevin Kelly
• The Castle Built on Sand – By Michael Wagner. About the future of education in times of AI.
• Celestial Director. A short fiction story about a fictional German physicist – By Geoff Manaugh

If you prefer the full firehose, check out the Substack link: https://petervan.substack.com/p/petervan-delicacies-179

“Delicacies” is my incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks I came across online. Handpicked by a human, no robots, no AI. A form of tripping, wandering, dérivé, with some loosely undefined theme holding them together. Delicacies have no fixed frequency: I hit the publish button when there is enough material. That can be after a week or after 3 months. No pressure, literally. Just click the image below. Enjoy!

Some highlights from this edition:

• Symposium with Vladan Joler, Valentina Tanni & Eryk Salvaggio examining the transformation and consolidation of the Web from the 1990s up to the age of generative AI.
• Cosmopolis, Metropolis, Nation-State: 3 protocols for articulating civilizational memory – Essay and talk by Venkatesh Rao
• I went to the premiere of David Claerbout’s work “The Woodcarver and the Forest” in the Castle of Gaasbeek and made a blog post about it.

If you prefer the full firehose, check out the Substack link: https://petervan.substack.com/p/petervan-delicacies-178

“Delicacies” is my incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks I came across online. Handpicked by a human, no robots, no AI. A form of tripping, wandering, dérivé, with some loosely undefined theme holding them together. Delicacies have no fixed frequency: I hit the publish button when there is enough material. That can be after a week, or after 3 months. No pressure, literally. Just click the image below. Enjoy!

Some highlights from this edition:

• A preview of the upcoming Antikytera Journal. I love the entries “What is Life?”
• Venkat has an awesome essay “We Are the Robots” on evolving human self-conceptions to machines
• What fully automated firms will look like by Dwarkesh Patel

If you prefer the full firehose, check out the substack link: https://petervan.substack.com/p/petervan-delicacies-175

“Delicacies” is my incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks I came across online. Handpicked by a human, no robots, no AI. A form of tripping, wandering, dérivé, with some loosely undefined theme holding them together. Delicacies have no fixed frequency: I hit the publish button when there is enough material. That can be after a week, or after 3 months. No pressure, literally. Just click the image below. Enjoy!

Some highlights from this edition:

• About the decade ahead in AI (PDF). By Leopold Aschenbrenner.
• About The Case for Autonomous Worlds. By ludens
• About a book by a mathematician in search of the formula of love. By Edward Frenkel. The author intrigues and provokes. Some kind of brainmelt.

If you prefer the full firehose, check out the substack link: https://petervan.substack.com/p/petervan-delicacies-174

“Delicacies” is my incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks I came across online. Handpicked by a human, no robots, no AI. A form of tripping, wandering, dérivé, with some loosely undefined theme holding them together. Delicacies have no fixed frequency: I hit the publish button when there is enough material. That can be after a week, or after 3 months. No pressure, literally. Just click the image below. Enjoy!