What the Vai Script Reveals About the Evolution of Writing - SAPIENS

Partnering with an AI company means I can no longer trust your output

Trust.

How it feels to get an AI email from a friend

My reaction to this surprised me: I was repelled

I know the feeling:

I imagine this is what it feels like when you’re on a phone call with someone and towards the end of the call you hear a distinct flushing sound.

Muscular imagination

Robin Sloan on The Culture:

The Culture is a utopia: a future you might actually want to live in. It offers a coherent political vision. This isn’t subtle or allegorical; on the page, citizens of the Culture very frequently artic­u­late and defend their values. (Their enthu­siasm for their own politics is consid­ered annoying by most other civilizations.)

Coherent political vision doesn’t require a lot, just some sense of “this is what we ought to do”, yet it is absent from plenty of science fiction that dwells only in the realm of the cautionary tale.

I don’t have much patience left for that genre. I mean … we have been, at this point, amply cautioned.

Vision, on the other hand: I can’t get enough.

Electric mountain: the power station that shows the beauty of infrastructure | Wales | The Guardian

This extract from Deb Chachra’s new book confirms that it’s a must-read. The writing fairly sings with infectious enthusiasm!

Word Persons and Web Persons · roytang.net

This resonates with me.