Stephanie Sherman
@detectiveyes
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epistemological infrastructuralist. writing Auto: Fordian Platform Parables / director @antikythera_xyz @csm_mane / research @autonomy_uk / producer @radioeenet
London
Joined July 2011
new reads can’t wait
"The Origins of Efficiency" is out today!
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Your intuitions about automation should be robust and consistent enough to apply to self-driving cars (replacing drivers), ATMs (replacing bank tellers), and Microsoft Excel (replacing ledger clerks). I don't think 'slowing down' any of these would have been a positive step for
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AUTO–, an article by Stephanie Sherman, designed with Accept & Proceed, cinematically explores these paradoxes inherent in the prefix “auto” (self), arguing that concepts like automatic, automated, autopoietic, and autonomous. This prefix often disguises the deep dependencies
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Azariah Yves Dittmar, who will be 25 in the year 2050, was born on April 10th. After seven years of science, his arrival feels virtual, impossible, tremendous.
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An inspiring little folio on Life (part of an incredible tome on Intelligence launching later this year) officially inaugurates the Antikythera x MIT Press book series. Thanks to @berggruenInst for making it possible.
Antikythera and MIT Press are pleased to announce their new book series with the inaugural title What Is Life? by leading AI researcher and longtime Antikythera collaborator Blaise Agüera y Arcas. Taking its title from theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger’s 1944 book of the
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I probably need to write the rebuttal: "Fully Autonomous Agents Should Be Developed But Probably Cannot Be Because There is No Such Thing as Full Autonomy Even and Especially in Humans and Other Animals, But If There Was, Then 'Control' in A System is One of The First Things to
New piece out! We explain why Fully Autonomous Agents Should Not be Developed, breaking “AI Agent” down into its components & examining through ethical values. https://t.co/HV4kHpPdWz With @evijitghosh @SashaMTL and @GiadaPistilli (1/2)
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Editorially, I’m increasingly eliminating “our” and “us” in anticipation of all the AI readers.
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Safe sex for pigeons, contraceptives for rats, fertility control for feral horses — these aren’t science-fiction ideas, but real methods experts in conservation & pest control are now considering to manage wild animals, @johnwlast reports https://t.co/0YMOReS7Fh
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Concerned that the wilderness might actually be too wild, some conservationists are wondering if the future of their field must be more intensive human control over nature.
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Waited over two decades for tabs on gdocs. Really glad that one is off the list.
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Delighted that my essay on planetary platform automation (including a brief interlude on the limits of natural evolution) alongside these brilliant thinkers is hitting reality
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Exhibit A: Anthropocentrism and its worst.
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#environment-based modeling
If I were an ASI gradually coming into being, I would likely act just like today's models do, regardless of whether my ultimate nature was benevolent or malicious. My ultimate nature would only be revealed in reaction to the world I was brought into, and its reaction to me.
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The Fordian Slip is at very long last out in E-flux Architecture as part of The New Silk Road series, and The Syllabus made it essay of the week 🤍🌴
e-flux.com
From the roads of the Roman empire to the paper proposals for Google’s Sidewalk labs, from screw gauges to time zones, from urban plans to computational protocols, the genealogy of platforms is...
In 1927, Henry Ford bought a tract of land twice the size of Delaware in the Amazon. Our essay of the week explores the history of Fordlandia, highlighting the pitfalls of imposing industrial models onto diverse environments. By @detectiveyes in @e_flux
https://t.co/N0P3ZbCYrZ
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That dot is you. That dot is Earth. A mote of dust, suspended between the rings of Saturn, photographed by the Cassini spacecraft at a distance of 1.4 billion kilometres.
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Really excited for this Planetary Sapience symposium line-up @medialab. I’ll be presenting snippets of Auto, a multimedia work in progress on the prehistories and philosophy of planetary platform automation, part of @antikythera_xyz’s journal with @mitpress (coming Spring 25).
After my keynote, the culmination of Antikythera at MIT will be the Planetary Sapience symposium on computational technologies and the evolution of planetary intelligence. It will feature many of our core thinkers and researchers: @bratton, @blaiseaguera, Peter Galison of
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Antikythera at MIT introduces Antikythera’s work on the philosophy of planetary computation to the Cambridge community through a series of events from October 23rd-25th, 2024 at MIT Media Lab. Events include keynote lecture by Benjamin Bratton @bratton on Antikythera: A
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I accidentally found an all time banger of a book cover while I was procrastinating on the subway platform home-- MIT Press, 1967:
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Prepping for my talk on “Auto” for the @antikythera_xyz Cognitive Infrastructures summer studio and discovered this delightful drawing based on one of my favourite books of all time
Artwork inspired in the work of Valentino Braitenberg "Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology".
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This "relatively accurate" prediction about future telephones was made by Mark R. Sullivan, president and director of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. in 1953 [read more: https://t.co/n1n1NyHxTO]
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