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Technology and Erasure of Self
Blogs
There was quite a long piece in The Verge recently about AI writing tools – specifically Sudowrite. Sudowrite is a piece of software based on Open AI’s language model GPT-3. These kinds of tools are particularly interesting to me because I studied artificial intelligence as…
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New Lens Old Data
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I don’t know why the research just keeps coming right now, but after the work, I mentioned in my last two essays was published, there is now another piece in another field that suggests life began on earth almost as soon as the planet formed….
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On The Tenacity Of Life
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A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece about the possibility that life is not some ultra-rare miracle, but rather potentially inevitable. A few pieces of new research out in the last few weeks reinforce this possibility, and develop it, but from different angles…
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Paste Magzine Reviews How to Pass as Human by Nic Kelman
News
The subtitle of the original graphic novel, How to Pass as Human, is “A Guide to Assimilation for Future Androids.” That description is more literal than may be assumed at first glance…
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Nic Kelman’s Interview with Blog Talk Radio
Interviews
Nic Kelman talked to #ConversationsLIVE Host Cyrus Webb to discuss the journey of bringing his book HOW TO PASS AS HUMAN to life and what it was like for him to reflect on who we are and how we handle life’s situations. ..
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Nic Kelman’s Interview with Slate Magazine
Interviews
“Emotion Is a Side Effect of Intelligence” – Nic Kelman, author of How to Pass as Human, imagines how an A.I. might see the human world..
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The Drolatic Meditations of Pantagruel
Blogs
In 1565, shortly after the publication of the last volume of Rabelais’ “Life of Gargantua and Pantagruel,” a book was published by Richard Breton containing 120 engravings of fantastic figures. The book claimed to be associated with Rabelais but was actually the work of François…
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Life In Hell
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A new analysis of one of the oldest rocks ever found now suggests that life may have thrived on Earth a mere 300 hundred million years after the planet’s accretion. If correct (and the evidence is pretty compelling), this is mind-boggling for two different reasons,…
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Science Fiction Writing by Nic Kelman
Guest Articles
The single biggest trap of writing science fiction is focusing on the science, not the fiction….
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Polychromatophilia by Nic Kelman
Guest Articles
My results were ruined. As I ran the tests again that afternoon, I considered her spectrum. But it was no good, I realized, she was all absorption, all dark matter…
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