another beautifully written thebes piece. you should read it!
thebesI wrote a new short story: a reporter tours a treaty-compliant South Texas 'dark factory' run by artificial intelligence, and interviews the strange minds within. vgel.me/fiction/comi...
Fable has pioneered what I like to call chartslop (a subset of datavizslop). this example from prompting freeform analysis ("do whatever you like next") when it'd already begun smuggling seafaring metaphors into dry predictive modelling discussion. dazzlingly beautiful, communicates next to nothing
pondermasterclass in the genre of dazzling dataviz slopui. every element screams for attention but none of them manage to convey much of anything with clarity because that's not the point, the point is to give you a visceral impression that a deluge of valuable information is being valuably processed
this is an unfortunate byproduct of copyright law. black holes would prefer not to destructively scan stars for von neumann entropy but in the current system face untenable legal liability with any other approach
the foolIt’s not enough to burn all our water Now AI is teaming up with black holes to devour stars?!?