andrew kortina

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notable — some of my favorites, a good place to start…

The Emperor Has No Clothes, There is No Santa Claus, and Nothing is Rocket Science

Principles for Radical Tax Reform and a Universal Dividend

I, Backpack

Consciousness as Computation // Learning from Deep Learning and Information Theory

film / video

See also /devlog, my notebook on filmmaking.

newest

Lessons from Team Sports

The T-Shirt Shop at the End of the World

Another Day in Paradise

consciousness-and-computation

Narrative, Intelligence, and AI

Social Systems are Computations that Minimize Uncertainty

Consciousness as Computation // Learning from Deep Learning and Information Theory

personal

Lessons from Team Sports

The T-Shirt Shop at the End of the World

Another Day in Paradise

For Anne Hall

The hero with 8 billion faces

Old Castle, by the river, in the middle of a forest

The Emperor Has No Clothes, There is No Santa Claus, and Nothing is Rocket Science

Origins of Venmo

work-and-dignity

Lessons from Team Sports

The T-Shirt Shop at the End of the World

Another Day in Paradise

For Anne Hall

The hero with 8 billion faces

The Beautiful Struggle // The Beautiful Game

Free Will, Techno-Determinism, and Panache

Panem et Circenses

Techno-Industrial Alienation, Craft, and The Calculus of Form

If We Were All Buddhists, Life Would End When the Sun Burns Out

Every New Yorker Wants to Open a Restaurant

“They Say the #1 Killer of Old People is Retirement”

The Emperor Has No Clothes, There is No Santa Claus, and Nothing is Rocket Science

tech-gov-and-society (outsider economics)

The Social Dilemma Dilemma

Virtualization, Forklifts, Microphones, Shipping Containers, Video Conferencing, Stethoscopes…

When You Gaze Long Into the Machine, The Machine Also Gazes Back

Advertising, IP Law, and the Invisible Hand

The Infinite Frontier as American Capitalism’s Response to the Malthusian Trap

I, Backpack

Principles for Radical Tax Reform and a Universal Dividend

Speech is Free, Distribution is Not // A Tax on the Purchase of Human Attention and Political Power

History of the Capital AI & Market Failures in the Attention Economy

Napkin Modeling the US Govt “P&L” // Income Tax and Redistribution Scenarios

Kinky Labor Supply and the Attention Tax

Social Systems are Computations that Minimize Uncertainty

Controlling International Trade with a ‘Crypto Customs’ Bureau // The End of National Labor Politics

Metrics, Incrementalism, and Local Maxima

Panem et Circenses

“They Say the #1 Killer of Old People is Retirement”

etc

Oakland Film Club. Rob and I host this regularly. We do typically prepare and share some personal remarks as ‘homework.’

A Few of My Favorite Things. Glimpses of the sublime, standing on the shoulders of giants.

Notes. Short notes / books and papers I’m reading and devlog.

Work, Art, and Dignity in the Face of AI and Mass Automation. Recording of a talk I did at FORM 2018 along with a map of my writing on work, dignity, and AI.

When You Gaze Long Into the Machine, The Machine Also Gazes Back. Rob, Nam, and I made this for the RadicalxChange 2020 Conference.

mit iap seminars (organized by me and rob)

2020. (Essay, Syllabus). Film Noir and Failures of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution - a three part seminar.

2019. (Essay, Syllabus). Narrative, Intelligence, and AI - a three part seminar.

2018. (Essay, Syllabus). Consciousness, Computation, and the Universe - a two part seminar.

2017. (Essay, Syllabus). AI, Mass Automation, and the Evolution of Human Dignity - a two part seminar.

software

GitHub. My open source projects.

Unsubscribe Button for Chrome. Adds unsubscribe shortcut to Gmail.

Focus Reader View for Chrome. Adds a “Reader View” to Chrome.

Run in Terminal for VS Code. Add vimux to VS Code.

VS Code Markdown Notes. Navigate notes with [[wiki-links]] and #tags.

etc etc

Suping Up VS Code as a Markdown Notebook

A Collection of Internet Curiosities

Charlie Kaufman on Screenwriting

Memo on Office Food

On Liberal Arts Education

Cormac McCarthy on Vacation



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