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Ever Not Quite.
Essays about technology and the human.
Recent essays
21 of 21A Portrait of the Artist as an LLM
Writing after the death of the (human) author
If Your Attention Isn’t a Resource, What Is It?
The “attention economy” offers the wrong definition
Teaching Silicon to Talk
Reading Martin Buber’s classic work on dialogue in the age of the chatbot
You Must Change Your Life
Marginalia, Vol. 2: Attention and the examined life
Technology Is Already ‘Out of Control’
Yudkowsky’s Demon and the autonomy of technique
Doomer Optimism
Marginalia, Vol. 1: A limited series for the end of the year
Welcome to the Machine
Modernity has its own monsters
The Use of the Useless
Zhuangzi on the tyranny of utility
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Transhumanism and the Denial of Death
The Anthropological Aura
There really is something no machine could ever replicate
Without Regard For Persons
How industry is talking about the AI rollout
Building in the Ruins
On what comes after techno-optimism
Crisis and Revelation
“Things Aren’t Getting Worse. The Truth is Just Being Revealed.”
Snapshots: Quotations about Photography
“Thus the mind has gone where vision pointed.” Hans Jonas
Strange Shadows [Part II]
Two centuries of photography have prepared the way for algorithmically-generated images. Now the image-world is becoming a Museum of Babel.
Strange Shadows [Part I]
Two centuries of photography have prepared the way for algorithmically-generated images. Now the image-world is becoming a Museum of Babel.
What We Lose When Machines Do the Writing
On what we lose when machines do the writing
“All I Ever Need Is You”
Apple says its iPad “Crush!” ad “missed the mark.” In reality, it came down right on target.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Reflections on the “humanity of the gaps” and techno-humanism
Control Group: Effective Altruism and the Technologization of Ethics
Effective Altruism and the Technologization of Ethics