Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 28

Meanwhile, on China’s terraformed military islands

https://warontherocks.com/2020/01/the... THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ON CHINA’S ISLAND BASES IS DANGEROUSLY WRONG by GREGORY B. POLING (…) As a result, the islands not only guarantee China...

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Web Semantics: Artificial Intelligence Wireheading

*Interesting term of art there, ‘wireheading,’ seems to have drifted in from old Larry Niven SF stories about people illicitly stimulating the pleasure centers of...

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The new Toyota City of the Future designed by a Danish guy

*Built in a former factory, gotta like it. *I wonder if Japanese car companies actually have futures. If they’re not run by Carlos Ghosn, maybe....

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‘Accelerate the development of military intelligentization” (军事智能化)

*Well, if one was a general in the People’s Liberation Army, of course one would want to fight smarter instead of trying to out-spend the...

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Musica Globalista: a hundred years of the theremin

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innova... By David A. Taylor SMITHSONIANMAG.COM SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 The “Play It Loud” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art spotlights the star instruments that...

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“The Great Automatic Grammatizator” of 1954

http://stlr.stanford.edu/pdf/bridy-co... Coding Creativity: Copyright and the Artificially Intelligent Author ANNEMARIE BRIDY CITE AS: 2012 STAN. TECH. L. REV. 5 (…) B. Imagining Computational Creativity The...

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Web Semantics: Tensorflow contributors

*What peculiar names and hacker handles they have. I wonder what they would look like if they were all assembled in an airport lounge. https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorf......

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Ghost writers

https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.... (…) Cummins v. Bond, an English case from 1927, involved a dispute over the copyright in a psychographic work called “The Chronicle of Cleophas,”...

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Stay in locations frequented by tourists

*You might be pretty safe if you were surrounded by CHINESE tourists. Security Alert – U.S. Embassy Belgrade January 8, 2020 Location: Serbia Event: Heightened...

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THE CALIFORNIA DESIGN DOMINION: THIRTEEN PROPOSITIONS by Peter Lunenfeld

THE CALIFORNIA DESIGN DOMINION: THIRTEEN PROPOSITIONS Peter Lunenfeld [This piece appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal: Weather, No. 24 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/c...] ...

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