Dave applies two quotes from sci-fi authors to the state of today’s web.
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
—Frederik Pohl
The function of science fiction is not only to predict the future, but to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury
A well-written white paper on time travel. Alas, it relies a bit too much on semantic nitpickery to offer any real insight.
How to ensure consistency in time travel narratives.
I really liked this short story.
Benjamín Labatut draws a line from the Vedas to George Boole and Claude Shannon onward to Geoffrey Hinton and Frank Herbert’s Butlerian Jihad.
In the coming years, as people armed with AI continue making the world faster, stranger, and more chaotic, we should do all we can to prevent these systems from giving more and more power to the few who can build them.
Naming things is hard, and sometimes harmful.
Greek tragedies are time-travel stories.
A spoiler-filled look at the new Christopher Nolan film.
Time travel, terminators, and network infrastructure.
Day five.