Open AI CEO Sam Altman recently published a short essay called “The Intelligence Age.” Not dissimilar from various essays by other Silicon Valley figures, his obsessions with growth and scale are evident throughout the text. Instead of composing an essayistic …
Visit Read the Redaction Poetry Techno-Optimist Manifesto In October 2023, the influential Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published what he titled his Techno-Optimist Manifesto, an anti-regulation anti-ethics hyper-capitalist growth-obsessed screed that, sadly, highlights the thinking that’s led to so …
Two years ago—before Facebook became the fastest company in history to reach a $1 trillion dollar valuation—my film ORDER OF MAGNITUDE extracted a few of Mark Zuckerberg’s most favorite video-recorded words to examine just how growth-obsessed he’d been over the …
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As the founder and CEO of the world’s largest social media corporation, what does Mark Zuckerberg think about? While we get clues from his posts on Facebook and elsewhere, a primary window into this question is through his public video …
The cover of NXS #2: Synthetic Selves Context This past summer I received an invitation to contribute to the European magazine NXS. NXS is an experimental biannual publication that: …aims to explore the emotional and sensual side of hardware, software …
You like my like of your like of my status is a sound and video installation. Each screen follows a progressive generative text pattern of increasingly “liking” each others’ “likes”. The text is spoken using a real-time speech synthesis engine, …