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GenAI: Killing Craft (opens the original)
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When I was about eight years old, I became irrationally upset by the fact that I had all these fantastic stories and ideas swirling around in my head that required real work to become, well, real. Why was I gifted with such a fabulous imagination in a world that completely ignored my thoughts? I even wrote an essay about it, titled something like, “On the Extreme Frustration of Not Being Able to Manipulate Reality with my Mind.” As painful as this realization was, I persevered and eventually eit
Diamonds Are Weirder Than You Think (opens the original)
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In Neal Stephenson’s science fiction masterpiece The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, microscopic nanobots build fantastic structures and extravagant objects out of diamond. They assemble mile-high buildings atom by atom, constructing colossal translucent towers stronger and more durable than anything we can imagine today. Of course those opulent towers are only accessible to a select few elites and the rest of humanity lives in nightmarish toxic squalor, but the theoretical t
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