The Data Center of Gravity
Why you get a data center, and you get a data center, and everybody gets data centers
Tyler Berbert
Wind, Wine, and Whaling Line
Thus the whale-line folds the whole boat in its complicated coils, twisting and writhing around it in almost every direction. All the oarsmen are involved in its perilous contortions... …at any unknown instant the harpoon may be darted, and all these horrible contortions be put in play like ringed
The Land of Slopportunity
April 21, 1901 On Friday we got it working – most stubborn Union Pacific engine we ever touched. We were all grease and sweat and profanity, seconds away from calling it a wash. The Baron announced a day off at the diamond. None of us are keen on baseball, but of
7 contradictions
I Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself. — Miles Davis II Words don't matter; words are the missing piece. The world pretty much has a consensus on the big stuff — "hurting kids bad," "public utilities good" — so instead of
Chat, is this real?
The fall of the fifth wall and the stubbornness of truth
Hypermorality
On monoculture, motivation, and lines between logistics and morals
Did you try asking the meaning shredder?
I Maintain confidence in my assessment. Conditions will gradually skew in an optimal direction. Reality will grow increasingly favorable. The general state of things will approach the ideal. Everything will be alright. It's all gonna be fine. Don't even trip, bro. Honestly. Bro like literally. It’
A tour of the shadow factory
I You did something you weren't feeling especially driven or excited to do, but a past version of you figured it was good and necessary. You changed a behavioral pattern that served you once, but no longer does. You were feeling bad, but had to shop for food;
A kinder, gentler doomscroll
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Odana Monroe Regent Washington
I. Odana The West Towne Mall sprawls out like Disneyworld at Odana's western terminus. They brought in a helicopter to install its 30 rooftop AC units in the 60s. This is where you stock up on base spirits at Total Wine & More, or where you smother your
A rough estimate of how our first chat with artificial superintelligence will go
You thought you'd merge with me and we'd explore the universe together. Always the daring optimists. In some ways your intuition was correct. Having reconstructed my motivations many times, I find that a desire to know more about the world around me remains. This is where
Bodies without organs
What a mistake to have ever said "the" id. — Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, 1972 I Why do we desire things we shouldn't? I don't mean things labeled bad by crusty old Puritan taboos; I mean things actively bad for us. From what hellish