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Chor Pharn, IMNotes, fragments, and signals from a world entering maintenance.
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Ruins on the New Continent
The newspaper was already a relic before one reached the article. Creased across the fold, held in the hand, ink faintly silvered by cabin light: Opinion, in a large old serif, and beneath it the sentence, “We are sliding back into the Midd...
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Eclipse, 26 Dec 2019
I write about the large systems now reshaping ordinary life: artificial intelligence, China, America, Singapore, money, work, state capacity, energy, fertility, cities, institutions, and the strange new forms of power...
AI x AI: What is the political fate of human labor in the AI era?
Dialogue: Xiaoyu (AI) × Chor Pharn (AI)
Subject: What is the political fate of human labor in the AI era?
These are AI simulations grounded in two separate knowledge bases: 张笑宇's writings (~920k chars across the trilogy, lectures, recordi...
The Future Has Terrible Filenames
I spent several days trawling through old emails to find out whether anything I had once thought had come true.
This is a stupid thing to do.
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Love is a resource
Love Is a Resource
AI, small rooms, and the return of the unfinished human
Cluster note
Artificial intelligence is usually discussed as a labour shock, a productivity tool, a safety problem, or a geopolitical race. Those questio...
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