Geoffrey Rockwell
@grockwel.bsky.social
Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the U of Alberta
Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto include academics as the enemy, but the description of our sins could just as well fit venture capital.
October 17, 2023 at 5:43 PM
Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto include academics as the enemy, but the description of our sins could just as well fit venture capital.
Reading Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto. He quotes Martinetti's Futurist Manifesto which includes, "We want to glorify war - the only cure for the world - militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for woman."
First world war: The manifesto of Futurism
FT Marinetti's 1909 manifesto of the principles of the Futurism movement
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2023 at 5:38 PM
Reading Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto. He quotes Martinetti's Futurist Manifesto which includes, "We want to glorify war - the only cure for the world - militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of the anarchists, the beautiful ideas which kill, and contempt for woman."
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"Digital detoxes" are trendy. But who actually does this voluntary disconnection?
Minh Hao Nguyen & @eszter.com find that younger, higher educated, more frequent internet users, and those with less dependable access are more likely to voluntarily disconnect
doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad021
Minh Hao Nguyen & @eszter.com find that younger, higher educated, more frequent internet users, and those with less dependable access are more likely to voluntarily disconnect
doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad021
October 16, 2023 at 3:10 PM
"Digital detoxes" are trendy. But who actually does this voluntary disconnection?
Minh Hao Nguyen & @eszter.com find that younger, higher educated, more frequent internet users, and those with less dependable access are more likely to voluntarily disconnect
doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad021
Minh Hao Nguyen & @eszter.com find that younger, higher educated, more frequent internet users, and those with less dependable access are more likely to voluntarily disconnect
doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad021
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I can't bring myself to read more than a page of the Andreessen thing. It's word vomit; LLMs do much better.
But the meta-pattern is interesting: academia and tech are locked in the sort of struggle for moral authority that used to take place between academics and journalists.
But the meta-pattern is interesting: academia and tech are locked in the sort of struggle for moral authority that used to take place between academics and journalists.
October 16, 2023 at 6:46 PM
I can't bring myself to read more than a page of the Andreessen thing. It's word vomit; LLMs do much better.
But the meta-pattern is interesting: academia and tech are locked in the sort of struggle for moral authority that used to take place between academics and journalists.
But the meta-pattern is interesting: academia and tech are locked in the sort of struggle for moral authority that used to take place between academics and journalists.
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Hoooo boy
Marc Andreessen, who runs one of the biggest Silicon Valley venture capital firms, wrote a "manifesto" today labeling “social responsibility" and "tech ethics" teams "the enemy."
His firm, a16z, recently pivoted from crypto/NFTs/Web3 to American military and defense contractor technology.
His firm, a16z, recently pivoted from crypto/NFTs/Web3 to American military and defense contractor technology.
October 16, 2023 at 8:07 PM
Hoooo boy
Call For Papers is now up for Replaying Japan 2024. This is being jointly organized at the U of Buffalo, SUNY and at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester (with transportation.) Should be a great conference on Japanese game culture. See replaying.jp
Call for papers 2024 - Replaying Japan
Replaying Japan 2024 – The 12th International Japan Game Studies Conference – [Conference Theme] Preservation, Innovation and New Directions in Japanese Game Studies [Dates] Monday, August 19 (U...
replaying.jp
October 16, 2023 at 6:10 PM
Call For Papers is now up for Replaying Japan 2024. This is being jointly organized at the U of Buffalo, SUNY and at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester (with transportation.) Should be a great conference on Japanese game culture. See replaying.jp
Reflecting in my blog on how OpenAI has changed the "core values" it describes on its Careers page. Now AGI is the first core value and anything that doesn't help with the commitment to building safe and beneficial AGI is out of scope. See theoreti.ca?p=8364
October 13, 2023 at 12:07 PM
Reflecting in my blog on how OpenAI has changed the "core values" it describes on its Careers page. Now AGI is the first core value and anything that doesn't help with the commitment to building safe and beneficial AGI is out of scope. See theoreti.ca?p=8364
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A 21 year old undergrad played a key role in this major breakthrough for the Herculaneum Scrolls project (one of the coolest DH projects NEH has funded). Luke Farritor, from U Nebraska-Lincoln, was the first person to uncover a full word from a 2000 year old scroll. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first time
Machine-learning technique reveals Greek words in CT scans of rolled-up papyrus. Machine-learning technique reveals Greek words in CT scans of rolled-up papyrus.
www.nature.com
October 13, 2023 at 2:14 AM
A 21 year old undergrad played a key role in this major breakthrough for the Herculaneum Scrolls project (one of the coolest DH projects NEH has funded). Luke Farritor, from U Nebraska-Lincoln, was the first person to uncover a full word from a 2000 year old scroll. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Every field has its own challenges.
August 31, 2023 at 1:25 PM
Every field has its own challenges.
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It's 1991. While you and your buddies are doing humanities computing, across campus people are experiencing science with computer-created "virtual reality".
August 25, 2023 at 11:11 PM
It's 1991. While you and your buddies are doing humanities computing, across campus people are experiencing science with computer-created "virtual reality".
Reflecting on presentation tools like PowerPoint and Tufte's critique. Wishing MORE had been successful. theoreti.ca?p=8346
August 25, 2023 at 11:14 PM
Reflecting on presentation tools like PowerPoint and Tufte's critique. Wishing MORE had been successful. theoreti.ca?p=8346
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The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition has been awarded $124,000 to digitise 20,000 images from Swarthmore and Haverford archives to reveal truth and begin repair around #Quaker boarding schools, 1852-1945
#Quakers #Skystorians
#Quakers #Skystorians
Native American group to digitize 20,000 archival pages linked to Quaker-run Indian boarding schools
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition says it will digitize 20,000 archival pages related to Quaker-operated Indian boarding schools.
apnews.com
August 24, 2023 at 9:14 AM
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition has been awarded $124,000 to digitise 20,000 images from Swarthmore and Haverford archives to reveal truth and begin repair around #Quaker boarding schools, 1852-1945
#Quakers #Skystorians
#Quakers #Skystorians
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Down to less than five extra new codes in the can in our spreadsheet that has 220 rows in it! Keep an eye out for any new codes you get and submit them here to share out to a colleague.
bit.ly/dh-bluesky
bit.ly/dh-bluesky
Digital Humanities Bluesky Code Sharing Form
Given the ongoing deterioration of Twitter as a viable space for the sharing of digital humanities work, ACH has begun exploring alternatives. Bluesky social has the makings of a viable alternative, b...
bit.ly
August 24, 2023 at 4:57 PM
Down to less than five extra new codes in the can in our spreadsheet that has 220 rows in it! Keep an eye out for any new codes you get and submit them here to share out to a colleague.
bit.ly/dh-bluesky
bit.ly/dh-bluesky
Second day of Replaying Japan in Nagoya and continuing my conference notes, https://philosophi.ca/pmwiki.php/Main/Replaying2023 . Excellent paper on the challenges of game studies in China. If I understood the story their DiGRA chapter was ruled illegal by the government and papers disappear.
August 19, 2023 at 12:49 AM
Second day of Replaying Japan in Nagoya and continuing my conference notes, https://philosophi.ca/pmwiki.php/Main/Replaying2023 . Excellent paper on the challenges of game studies in China. If I understood the story their DiGRA chapter was ruled illegal by the government and papers disappear.
Reading AP's "Standards around generative AI" (https://blog.ap.org/standards-around-generative-ai) they strike me as sensible advice we should give our students including "We urge staff [students] to not put confidential or sensitive information into AI tools."
August 18, 2023 at 9:18 PM
Reading AP's "Standards around generative AI" (https://blog.ap.org/standards-around-generative-ai) they strike me as sensible advice we should give our students including "We urge staff [students] to not put confidential or sensitive information into AI tools."
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This is a really good example of a general principle about prompting, which is that you have to ask yourself when & how words are actually used in captions — not what the dictionary says they mean.
Pro tip: don't use 'photorealistic' if you want to get images that look like photos! Check these 4 different settings in order to get what I mean.
[prompt/details in the alt]
#midjourney #aiart
[prompt/details in the alt]
#midjourney #aiart
August 16, 2023 at 4:28 PM
This is a really good example of a general principle about prompting, which is that you have to ask yourself when & how words are actually used in captions — not what the dictionary says they mean.
At Nagoya Zokei University for Replaying Japan 2023 in Nagoya, Japan. Finally we are back in person. Keeping conference notes at https://philosophi.ca/pmwiki.php/Main/Replaying2023
August 18, 2023 at 2:45 AM
At Nagoya Zokei University for Replaying Japan 2023 in Nagoya, Japan. Finally we are back in person. Keeping conference notes at https://philosophi.ca/pmwiki.php/Main/Replaying2023
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Hey babe, wake up, a new robots.txt just dropped https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot
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Explore developer resources, tutorials, API docs, and dynamic examples to get the most out of OpenAI's platform.
platform.openai.com
August 12, 2023 at 11:28 PM
Hey babe, wake up, a new robots.txt just dropped https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot
Just posted a small album from our trip to Bamfield and Kiix̣in on Vancouver island. https://flickr.com/photos/geoffreyrockwell/albums/72177720310428843
August 11, 2023 at 9:21 PM
Just posted a small album from our trip to Bamfield and Kiix̣in on Vancouver island. https://flickr.com/photos/geoffreyrockwell/albums/72177720310428843