I Want Owned Physical Media Back, But I'm Not Sad To See DVDs Go – Optical Media Was Always A Transitional

Happy New Year 2024 from Korea.

Year of the 🐲🐉!

Moff Tarkin

Ok I caved, my beloved war computer

I have decided I will keep blaming Jonah Magnus for the Everything.

I don't think whatever remnants of Jon there still are is Error/Archivist, but it's a fun concept all the same.

Alderaan

Heiko Hellwig: Silicon Cities (2017)

"There was an exchange on Twitter a while back where someone said, ‘What is artificial intelligence?' And someone else said, 'A poor choice of words in 1954'," he says. "And, you know, they’re right. I think that if we had chosen a different phrase for it, back in the '50s, we might have avoided a lot of the confusion that we're having now." So if he had to invent a term, what would it be? His answer is instant: applied statistics. "It's genuinely amazing that...these sorts of things can be extracted from a statistical analysis of a large body of text," he says. But, in his view, that doesn't make the tools intelligent. Applied statistics is a far more precise descriptor, "but no one wants to use that term, because it's not as sexy".

'The machines we have now are not conscious', Lunch with the FT, Ted Chiang, by Madhumita Murgia, 3 June/4 June 2023