More News That Will Likely Piss you off
28
Apr
Before You Sign Up for Outlier AI, Don't.
By Matt Stone (I told you that you would see my name again)
Before You Sign Up for Outlier AI,
13 min read
21
Apr
Techno-Nationalism and the new Shape of War
I wrote this in 2022, before starting my PhD. I was trying to make sense of why AI and technology suddenly felt geopolitical instead of collaborative. What I didn’t have yet was the language for what was changing underneath it.
24 min read
20
Apr
Aaron Swartz, the Sweet Prince of Reddit
Aaron was the Reddit prince of an open web that never fully arrived. Altman is the OpenAI Sith Lord building the Death Star while we applaud how fast it does our taxes.
16 min read
19
Apr
The Algorithmic Sacred
Bitcoin presented itself as a break from older systems of power. No central bank. No sovereign seal. No trusted third party. Just code, consensus, and math. But authority did not disappear. It changed form.
20 min read
19
Apr
Time Saved. Lives Ruined.
9 min read
17
Apr
Elon Musk and the Power of Never Hearing No
14 min read
15
Apr
Why AI Makes Institutions Harder to Correct
This is the opening of Chapter 1 of my dissertation, where I frame AI as a problem of corrective timing, the shrinking window in which institutions can still revise harmful decisions before consequences harden.
13 min read
14
Apr
Cape Fear River Prophet (Reader Requested)
By Matt Stone
She warned him about a future exchange of missiles between Israel and Iran. She then said there
10 min read
14
Apr
Antarctica Ate a Submarine
An unmanned submarine mapping West Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf reported strange under-ice structures, then went silent after traveling underwater
6 min read
12
Apr
A Human Gatekeeper (Paid Members Only)
6 min read