The Superplay Report #15: Steven Johnson says Gemini Notebook is pro-human (or at least pro-writer)
Also: kid spies being recruited through gamification. And more from AI's growing public sphere
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E2 means “Second Enlightenment”. Transformative creativity, radical innovation and generative activism - celebrated, proposed and developed here. Cosmo-Scottish.
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The Superplay Report #14: "What remains when intelligence becomes cheap? Presence, embodiment, ritual" (and more)
Also: on African and Confucian AI. But watch out for the "vengeful player" and his fascist individualism
The Superplay Report #13: "Natural friction" is a challenge to AI, whether it's music or maths
The co-founder of Patreon, and the world's greatest mathematician, preaching from the same page
PK in The National: Guga hunt is brutal but we should not denigrate the history behind it
What’s the transcendence available from nature, that doesn’t involve coshing, beheading and wing-snapping young birds?
PK in The National: Would Mackintosh want us to perfectly restore Glasgow School of Art?
The next Mack could power the young artists and creatives of the 2020s. While ensuring it is structurally safe for them to be there
PK in The National: If UK bans teenagers from social media for safety, why not ban men?
The relations between freedom and safety are not zero-sum, victory or defeat for one side or the other
PK in The National: What Count Binface tells us about winning Scottish independence
We’ve really lost something if we indulge in such elemental derision for representative democracy
The Superplay Report #12: Musk misreads Iain M. Banks, and the tetra-class AI society we don't want
Also: Martin Scorsese and Neill Blomkamp run their cinematic skills through generative AI
The Superplay Report #11: AI escapes its sandbox, Neo-luddites just turn off/away
Lurid tales of machine autonomy, languid tales of play in Tompkins Park
The Superplay Report #10: Many "humanist" reviews of AI - and Ukraine's bad science-fiction war
Much eloquent defence of the human against the artificial. As we do our tribal thing...