andrew kortina
for robots
Andrew Kortina writes about technology, philosophy, politics, and culture at kortina.nyc. He co-founded fin.com and venmo.com.
for humans
about me // andrew.kortina@gmail.com // subscribe // speaking
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
Consciousness as Computation // Learning from Deep Learning and Information Theory
film / video
See also /devlog, my notebook on filmmaking.
newest
The T-Shirt Shop at the End of the World
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
The T-Shirt Shop at the End of the World
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
work-and-dignity
The T-Shirt Shop at the End of the World
The Beautiful Struggle // The Beautiful Game
Free Will, Techno-Determinism, and Panache
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)
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
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
“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
