Contraptions
Venkatesh RaoJanky, wobbly models of everything from philosophy to technology and everything in-between.
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AI in World Machine Theory
The basic premise of the World Machines theory I’ve been developing in collaboration with book club regulars is that we can describe how the world works at any given time in terms of three co-extensive machine-like planetarities, an ascenda...
Writing Liveness
A side quest within my ongoing exploration of liveness lately has been applying the notion to writing. I don’t mean liveness in a figurative sense, such as a particularly well-conceived fictional character coming “alive” in a good novel. I ...
Intentions have a surprising amount of detail
My AI-use attention frontier has decisively shifted from writing to vibe-coding, which is partly why I haven’t written many sloptraptions this year. That and the fact that ChatGPT has gotten worse at writing, and I’m using all my precious C...
On Cooling America Out
I’ve been closely re-reading Erwing Goffman’s classic 1952 paper, On Cooling the Mark Out, after more than a decade, and this re-read feels very different, driven by the vague intuition that it sheds some important light on the status of th...
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