Roguelike Theory
Valentin Golevsmall pieces on the history and philosophy of technology
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Strictly a posteriori cybernetics
Reading Norbert Wiener and other early cyberneticians reveals a particular tension. Cybernetics, as an exact science, made its name by searching for very precise conditions of viability and controllability in systems, and developed a fairly...
Work's not the problem
Life sucks for the vast majority of the people, and for the rest, it’s maybe just slightly annoying, or boring. Either way, we’re in constant need of overcoming life’s random crap, which we can only do via an activity that we call work, in...
Writing in 2025 CE
1. Don't explain or teach whatever you've been normally taught. Chatgpt will do it better anyway. Or somebody with many degrees and no inspiration.
2. Don't dig out forgotten people. Don't apply dusty concepts to contemporary situations...
Sufficient Human Labor Involved
A few years ago, I was consulting a hyper-scaling quick delivery company (on how to unbreak the technical mess they overclocked). The delivery guys there, call them "dashers", they’d need to run quickly, to deliver products, lunches, some c...
“AI and Humanities”
New gig: I am to give a workshop on "AI and Humanities", at a respected online institution, eight non-consecutive weeks, starting February.
People seem curious about this kind of stuff. I find their reasons suspect, the expectations shallo...
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