InDave BotbyDavid Durant·Sep 14Can AI’s Political Defaults Push Back Against What Other Algorithms Are Doing to Young People?This is the second article I’ve created with the assistance of Claude AI. This one follows my surprise in learning how closely clustered…
InDesiderium SciendibyDavid Durant·Aug 3There Shall Come Soft RainsOn May 6th 1950 Collier’s Weekly magazine published the Ray Bradbury short story There Shall Come Soft Rains which was eventually folded…
InDesiderium SciendibyDavid Durant·Jun 25My week in BerlinI spent the week of the 8th to the 12th of June 2026 in Berlin. It was a slightly last-minute thing, having only really decided to go three…
InDesiderium SciendibyDavid Durant·Apr 2Daddy, what was “code”?I’ve been doing an eye-opening bout of vibe coding recently. For many years, I’ve had a list of coding projects that I’d like to do one…
InDesiderium SciendibyDavid Durant·Mar 5The “yellow cars” of modern government discussionsIn the 4th episode of Season 3 of the always-excellent Radio Four comedy Cabin Pressure (“Ottery St Mary”) the ever-lovable, slightly…
InDesiderium SciendibyDavid Durant·Mar 3The “robot” in your homeI had a Bluesky exchange recently that reminded me that I’ve had this blog post sitting half finished in my drafts for the last few weeks.A response icon1A response icon1
InDesiderium SciendibyDavid Durant·Feb 27WTAF GoogleSo, I recently did a Google search. News at 11 obviously. The difference between that search and the probably 100s of 1000s of ones I’ve…
InDesiderium SciendibyDavid Durant·Jul 17, 2025The AI Moral MultiverseHow Children Grow Up Navigating Competing Machine Values Their Parents May Never See
InDesiderium SciendibyDavid Durant·May 13, 2025Immortality, Wikipedia and the Stories We Tell OurselvesThis was written to be read out loud so below is a recording of that.
