How Games Will Save the World (Again) ( franklantz.substack.com )
You're Welcome
The madness of transparency ( duncanreyburn.substack.com )
If you live by the simulacrum, you will die by the simulacrum. A few thoughts on the semiotics of solidarity.
Currents 097: Frank Lantz on Network Wars and Games ( www.jimruttshow.com )
Jim talks with Frank Lantz, game designer and director of the Game Center at NYU, about Network Wars and the art of game-making.
Vibecamp 2023 Retrospective ( medium.com )
I just got back from Vibecamp and it was one of the most high-valence activities that I have ever participated in. Here I talk about my experience, comment on some of the early post-Vibecamp discourse, and share my thoughts on the future of the festival.
Larger selves ( notebook.drmaciver.com )
Note: This is transcribed verbatim from my physical notebook, so when I refer to a notebook in here I'm talking about an actual book I'm writing in with an actual pen. I just didn't want to inflict my hand writing on you.
Data Falsificada (Part 2): "My Class Year Is Harvard" ( datacolada.org )
This is the second in a four-part series of posts detailing evidence of fraud in four academic papers co-authored by Harvard Business School Professor Francesca Gino. It is worth reiterating that to the best of our knowledge, none of Gino’s co-authors carried out or assisted with the data collection for the studies in this...
Intents and where to find them ( www.propellerheads.xyz )
Intents are partial transaction that are useful whenever you want to outsource part of the transaction to someone else.
Tech's Reckoning ( wheresyoured.at )
“To face down your demons, you’ve got to free them.” The last six months have felt like a perpetual threat — a looming doom that never quite transformed into something tangible. We have all been waiting for something to break — for us to enter a recession, for us to be fired, for our friends to be fired, for our...
How come GPTs don't ask for clarifying information? ( lumpenspace.substack.com )
Really tho, don't they? Find a skeptic-baiting challenge at the end.
Upgrade your cargo cult for the win ( metarationality.com )
Richard Feynman derided “cargo cult science” that sticks to fixed systems. Innovation requires an upgrade to fluid, meta-systematic inquiry.
Alone over the ocean, I saw it with a different eye ( unspeakable.blog )
A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.
Innerring ( www.lewissociety.org )
May I read you a few lines from Tolstoy’s War and Peace? When Boris entered the room, Prince Andrey was listening to an old general, wearing...
'Controlled spontaneity': The secret UK government blueprints shaping post-terror planning ( www.middleeasteye.net )
After the 2017 London Bridge attack, local officials were told: 'We're sending you a hundred imams.'
Smoke Week ( www.nplusonemag.com )
On the weather map on my phone, as I stood and consulted it at 81st and Central Park West, the color-coded diagram of the plumes scorching and stretching south from Ottawa looked exactly like a circa-2004 televised aerial heat map visualization of some especially deadly nighttime moment in a town somewhere in Basra. The colors...
Anti-Yudkowsky ( antiyudkowsky.com )
Towards Harmony With Machines
C. Thi Nguyen (University of Utah), "Transparency is Surveillance" ( newworkinphilosophy.substack.com )
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2022
