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Philosophy

No-one knows how AI works

No one really knows how the most advanced AI algorithms do what they do. I am not sure if this is actually a problem…

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culture

Facebook’s “Safety Check”

Social realities have always been culturally-mediated spaces but when these spaces are themselves aligned to corporate financial gain, even genuinely or potentially useful post-disaster communications and humanitarian tools seem hollow and superficial…

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culture

The “Mediation” in Social Media

Social media is neither good nor bad. It is merely another evolution of the participatory self-expression and creative individual cultural absorption which so well characterises historical and technological development…

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Philosophy

Through the Looking Glass

What if the world is essentially and fundamentally not what it appears to be ?

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creativity

Nurturing Creativity

Nurture creativity wherever you find it – in yourself, in others or in the world. It is far too precious to waste…

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technology

Doubling Down on Digital Property Rights

…attempts to lock systems down inadvertently create the loopholes and logics of their own failure…

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politics

Politics

A political stance is really just a way of sharing with the world what you think that people really are…

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Uncategorized

Obsolescence

To live a life forever chasing the ineffable dragons of manufactured experience and superficial self-expression…

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culture

Words: Mistaken Identities

In a world such as this where we all have our guards up most of the time in response to the more bleak realities of life, we would still do well to remember that goodness, sincerity and honesty still exists within others and within ourselves…

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culture

Cult of Personality

The cult of the leader, of single isolated points of power and control and is an inevitable consequence and inversion of a fundamental social and psychological misunderstanding…

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Philosophy

On Unity

Self and world are nothing in themselves and it is only in the interactions and creative, fundamentally incomplete interplay that they both gain substance…

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culture

Facebook Tackles Fake News

Facebook provides an attempted technical solution in this opening salvo of the online Truth Wars…