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The 9 Tribes of Sci-Fi (2026 Edition) (opens the original)
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Damien Walter quits YouTube over fears his video essays could destroy humanity “within 10 years” (opens the original)
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Who killed Star Trek Wars? (opens the original)
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The Aircraft Carrier and the StarshipThe USS Enterprise CVN 65 is, at least indirectly, the most famous of warships.The first aircraft carrier with nuclear engines was the inspiration for the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 and its warp engines.Gene Roddenberry was also fascinated by the earlier Enterprise CV6, a Yorktown class carrier, that fought in and survived WW2. Roddenberry’s original name for the Enterprise was “Yorktown”.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com
ChatGPT is made of people! (opens the original)
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It Was Never ArtificialIn the summer of 1956, a group of men in surprisingly sharp casual wear sat around at Dartmouth College to invent a science.The science already existed and was called “cybernetics”, since another group of academics called it that at the 1949 Macy conference, after the term invented by Norbert Wiener.“…one of the reasons for inventing the new term was to escape association with ‘cybernetics.’ I wished to avoid having either to accept Norbert Wiener as a guru or having to a
Ed Zitron killed the god of AGI (opens the original)
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This is how a god dies, not with a cosmic explosion, not with a descent into eternity, but with the face of a pissed off Englishman calling it a big pile of bollocks.If five years ago you had asked me for a single symbol to express the first meeting of Humanity and AI, I might have said HAL’s red eye from 2001, Keanu Reeves awakening from The Matrix, even the Terminator crushing human skulls.I would not have suggested the face of Ed Zitron.But here we are.Ed’s expression captures the mix of “wha
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