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I wrote about AI already, but that was about howwe’re all going to die.Since then, the conversation has become more nuanced. Now I’m encounteringmore subtle ideas I think are totally wrong. So because I know better, here’s why.“AI is already here.”

ChatBots are good at figuring out what comes next when youstart a sentence with, “The capitol of Antigua is…” That’s pretty cool. Wedidn’t have that bef

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“People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.”
― Max Barry, Lexicon

tags: identity, stupidity, truth

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“She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didn’t mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.”
― Max Barry, Lexicon

tags: argument, argumentation, openness, persuasion, power

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“every story written is
marks upon a page
The same marks,
repeated, only
differently arranged”
― Max Barry, Lexicon

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MAY SCIENCE FICTION -- this poll decides which two books will go into the run off poll of the Science Fiction Book of the Month for May.

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

18 votes, 20.5%

Mindstar Rising by Peter F. Hamilton

15 votes, 17.0%

Lexicon by Max Barry

14 votes, 15.9%

Time Salvager by Wesley Chu

11 votes, 12.5%

The Blue World by Jack Vance

9 votes, 10.2%

Persona by Genevieve Valentine

9 votes, 10.2%

These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner

7 votes, 8.0%

The Book of Strange New Things by Michel Faber

5 votes, 5.7%

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