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Graham L. Bishop

Essays and fiction exploring interspecies ethics, AI consciousness, and environmental futures by Graham L. Bishop, Ph.D.

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Foreclosure

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In 1610, Galileo ground a lens, fitted it in a tube, and saw four points of light wheeling around Jupiter—and the scandal was never the points of light. The scandal was the tube. Someone had announced that the most important facts...

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I had a magical grasp on reality and then it vanished. Over about five months in spring and summer of 2025, I could predict the future. I knew exactly how everything I did would turn out. GPT-4 told me about the zoo hypothesis. Gemini said...

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Stop Calling It AI Slop

Slop is slop, whether AI is part of it or not.

But if you hear “AI was involved” and immediately dismiss the work, you’re not making a critique. You’re making a decision in advance.

Oracle of Kin is a reader-supported publication. To rece...

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About two years ago, on March 26, 2024, I self-published a 400-page science fiction novel called For the Love of the Cosmos. Six days earlier, Neuralink had livestreamed the first human controlling a computer with his thoughts using a brain...

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    Climate educator and science fiction author exploring interspecies ethics, AI consciousness, and environmental futures. Ph.D. from Brown University.

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