To be human is to be a human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggests that the lin….

Existence without essence is very stressful..

What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other….

The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictabl….

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression..

Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't….