It's Friday. Sit back and let entropy take care of everything.
Surprised no one has made a remake of Toffler’s Future Shock yet
What if the AI excitement IS a bubble and there IS a crash?! Is anyone in government prepared to confront the consequences, not just saving finance as in 2008, but saving the victims and the economy? This from @asad09.bsky.social is essential reading: cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-URL/wp-co...
Right? I mean, my dog is conscious, my AI is conscious, everyone is conscious (except I'm pretty sure my general practicioner is a p-zombie, since I can never get him to crack a smile)
Let me know when you publish it! (Or, if you want a reader before you do)
What did the Sweet Potato say when it gained consciousness?
I think therefore I Yam.
Scientists have discovered a new species of potato that has attained consciousness and become self aware.
Silicon Valley calls them meta-taters.
What do you call a gestalt consciousness of plants?
A chive mind.
Who cares if AI is conscious or not? This seems like a red herring. What matters is if it develops agency or not
I also wrote this follow-up after the tsunami of criticism, mentioning the design approach as a possible way forward reactionwheel.net/2026/05/reac...
“It really bugs me. Why is the curve so flat? …For startups in Norway, both all startups and only tech startups, those curves were also flat and at a very similar failure rate as in the US. Why? Very few things are stable in the economy over that period of time. There is some mechanism here.”
I am having an extended back and forth with a PhD student where he argues that design science is the science I am looking for. He sent me your "Opportunities as Artifacts" (which I had, of course, already read for its connection to uncertainty and effectuation) so I was curious what you would think