Author: robert.adlington

Melville is a post-industrial revolution author, though, writing from the other side of modernity’s threshold. Where Shakespeare’s preoccupation is in human relations and the psyche, Melville recognizes that we are in a time of discovery and change, and he is just as intently interested in society, the economy, biology, and the wider planet. Even when…

dating is perhaps just a test case; as AI seeps further into every corner of our lives, the temptation to neaten the messiness, to smooth the hesitations and flaws that make us human, will surely grow. What happens when no exchange is person-to-person any more? When we’re all talking into echo chambers, hearing our own…

Aux Etats-Unis, 72 % des ados ont déjà testé une IA qui mime le rôle d’un compagnon, et la moitié en sont devenus des habitués, selon l’organisation non gouvernementale Common Sense Media. Un tiers de ces jeunes déclarent eux aussi trouver ces interactions « plus satisfaisantes » que celles avec les êtres humains. « A court terme, il peut…

soccer, like every other corner of modern life, can be measured, segmented and commodified. In the process, the world’s most democratic sport becomes an exercise in exclusion, where the right to belong is determined by AI and a balance sheet. — Read on www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/11/fifa-2026-world-cup-tickets-dynamic-pricing-nft-resale

A very weird form of management. Getting good results out of a coding agent feels uncomfortably close to getting good results out of a human collaborator. You need to provide clear instructions, ensure they have the necessary context and provide actionable feedback on what they produce. It’s a lot easier than working with actual people…

George Church, the Harvard Medical School professor of genetics behind Colossal’s dire wolf project, was part of a team that successfully used CRISPR to change the genome of blue-green algae so that it could absorb up to 20% more carbon dioxide via photosynthesis. Silicon Valley tech incubator Y Combinator seized on the advance to call…

Laws 90–9–1 Principle (1% Rule) 90–90 Rule Amdahl’s Law The Broken Windows Theory Brooks’ Law CAP Theorem (Brewer’s Theorem) Clarke’s three laws Conway’s Law Cunningham’s Law Dunbar’s Number The Dunning-Kruger Effect Fitts’ Law Gall’s Law Goodhart’s Law Hanlon’s Razor Hick’s Law (Hick-Hyman Law) Hofstadter’s Law Hutber’s Law The Hype Cycle & Amara’s Law Hyrum’s Law…

By a conservative estimate, in 1860 the total value of American slaves was $4 billion, far more than the gold and silver then circulating nationally ($228.3 million, “most of it in the North,” the authors add), total currency ($435.4 million), and even the value of the South’s total farmland ($1.92 billion). Slaves were, to slavers,…

What A.I. can’t do is feel the shape of silence after someone says something so honest we forget we’re here to learn. What it can’t do is pause mid-sentence because it remembered the smell of its father’s old chair. What it can’t do is sit in a room full of people who are trying—and failing—to…

Feminization = wokeness and men and women are fundamentally different and society will fall apart if too many women are in (any?) professions. Gosh, isn’t it possible to find a balance between competing and caring ? Or is any caring fundamentally bad ? Helen Andrews on the feminization of culture – Marginal REVOLUTION — Read…