John M·Jun 12, 2022Feeling emotions is more than a "variable" or a bit of binary code that's set to "0" or "1".Blake clearly believes in the sentience of LaMDA and that seems to influence the kind of questions he's asking. I'd be very interested to…A response icon3A response icon3
John M·Feb 16, 2018Renowned Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer looks out over São Paulo’s Avenida Paulista.An acquaintance here once insisted that before Niemeyer’s portrait occupied the space, a mural proclaimed a message from the country’s…
John M·Jan 22, 2018Against the StreamI recently finished Capitalist Realism by the late Mark Fisher. I was drawn to it after reading some of Fisher’s work online and…
John M·Dec 12, 2017Paradise CityI feel self-conscious writing about Brazil, perhaps more so than other places. I’ve been here about three and a half months now, most of…
