A thread on possible isolation reading. JGB’s stories have been great, weird enough to suit the times, introverted, autarkic, etc 1/npic.twitter.com/hnLFga9GwH
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Creator of a blunt object known as Intelligence and Spirit https://tinyurl.com/s7e226j (Urbanomic/Sequence).
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A thread on possible isolation reading. JGB’s stories have been great, weird enough to suit the times, introverted, autarkic, etc 1/npic.twitter.com/hnLFga9GwH
The collection is daunting but a blog @simon_sellars is invaluable guide, while his new book approaches JGB from a different perspective http://www.ballardian.com/cosmic-sentinels-spiral-jetties-ballard-smithson-dean … 2/n
I reckon plague & radiation have a certain affinity/similarity. And institutional failure in service of ideology as relevant today (UK/US) as in 1980s USSR. Cue, Serhii Plokhy’s survey of Chernobyl’s legacy 4/npic.twitter.com/KGj3DmCrD0
While existential risk has many vectors as @FHIOxford , and humans think little about their future selves, not to mention distant generations. Even when prevention might be cheap at the price. Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence on existential risk from AI/AGI 5/npic.twitter.com/3CIw6ZdXHQ
And this: a philosophical siting of AI within German idealism, language, collective life of a community via a thought-experiment of a ‘toy-AGI’ by @NegarestaniReza 6/npic.twitter.com/FUYU1FJmwr
On topic of radically different intelligence, artificial or otherwise, Stan Lem’s Solaris (the 1972 film is a fair substitute tbh). Note man’s instinct to irradiate when faced w/ Glissantian opacity. 7/npic.twitter.com/SelYjdvOB1
Also Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men
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