Marcelo Rinesi·1d agoThe Shape of the GameHalfway between the final score and the play-by-play, there are questions we can ask about a basketball game that tells us much about how…
Marcelo Rinesi·6d agoThe Next-to-Last Trick“Given enough computational power all magic tricks are shallow,” my father used to say, and then dedicated his life and his death to…
Marcelo Rinesi·Nov 6The Sci-Fi IndexTo a first-order approximation the economy ~ AI: there’s no doubt that sci-fi has moved from being our culture’s concept of the future to…
Marcelo Rinesi·Nov 3This Could Have Been An EmailThere’s a murder of cyclopean crows spiraling above you. You look up to one you know hates you. Behind his eye there’s a black hole. The…
Marcelo Rinesi·Oct 29Gretchen Walsh is the world’s best athlete and it’s not even closeEvery statement of this type needs almost as many asterisks as it has words: Who do we count as an athlete? How do we define best, over…
Marcelo Rinesi·Oct 28A simulation tool to explore the impact of AI on different marketsI’ve uploaded here a simple web app that can be used to play around with the concepts I wrote about in Relative superintelligence and…
Marcelo Rinesi·Oct 24Of Gardens and LoveThe Garden was many things. Each of them was a barrier that required its own unique key. It was an island surrounded by depth drones…
Marcelo Rinesi·Oct 12Graduation Night“We perform autopsies to kill ghosts” said the forensic pathologist to her apprentice during the last night of his training, and it was the…
Marcelo Rinesi·Oct 4Nighttime GamesThe iron-red night rain was kind to nothing, least of all my long-distance surveillance drones. I was burning favors by the second…
Marcelo Rinesi·Sep 24Harry and the Three WitchesThe Witch of the Future was the company psychologist. She had access to every sensor in your office, under your mattress, below your skin…
