@blaiseaguera.bsky.social was just talking about this during the #AI Welfare event at Google. It's fascinating stuff, and I will certainly be including it in future conversations about this thing we call "intelligence."

No spoilers...that's in the book : )
But here's a hint: it is informed by Derrida's reading of the Phaedrus in "Plato's Pharmacy"

Truth in advertising.

Think of all the horrible things one would do with access to that kind of editorial power. I mean, we might even get a reel shot at world piece.

Definitely have piqued my interest. Looking forward to the results of your empirical testing.

And it has an interesting resonance with that 1960 essay from Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline that gave us the word "cyborg."

And apparently just standing there waiting to be tapped for cooling server clusters.

Accurate except for the Moose and the Mountains. Other than that, it's a perfect rendition of the northern part of Illinois.

Brilliant name. Looks delicious.

Envious....wish I could join you for this.

I do not remember exactly, but it was definitely in that area. In any event, it was one of the best rental deals I ever had. I was in the area recently, and The Grandeur is a grand as it ever was.

I think you have just found the title for your forthcoming memoir: "Looking Sideways"

It was a true pleasure spending time with you at your new academic home @americanuniversity.bsky.social It was great fun catching up. Perhaps we'll have another chance at SPEP (wink).

It's Lakeview. And like all gentrifying areas of the city, it's now considered a prime location. And unfortunately one of the casualties of that development has been the loss of the iconic Char-Lar, our 4am bar across the street with the best motto ever: "Easy to find, hard to leave."

Negroponte's revenge.