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
notable — some of my favorites, a good place to start…
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The Emperor Has No Clothes, There is No Santa Claus, and Nothing is Rocket Science
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Consciousness as Computation // Learning from Deep Learning and Information Theory
film / video
See also /devlog, my notebook on filmmaking.
newest
consciousness-and-computation
personal
work-and-dignity
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Techno-Industrial Alienation, Craft, and The Calculus of Form
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If We Were All Buddhists, Life Would End When the Sun Burns Out
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The Emperor Has No Clothes, There is No Santa Claus, and Nothing is Rocket Science
tech-gov-and-society (outsider economics)
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Virtualization, Forklifts, Microphones, Shipping Containers, Video Conferencing, Stethoscopes…
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When You Gaze Long Into the Machine, The Machine Also Gazes Back
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The Infinite Frontier as American Capitalism’s Response to the Malthusian Trap
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Speech is Free, Distribution is Not // A Tax on the Purchase of Human Attention and Political Power
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History of the Capital AI & Market Failures in the Attention Economy
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Napkin Modeling the US Govt “P&L” // Income Tax and Redistribution Scenarios
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Controlling International Trade with a ‘Crypto Customs’ Bureau // The End of National Labor Politics
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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
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.
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 a shortcut to Gmail for unsubscribing from marketing emails.
- Focus Reader View for Chrome - Adds a “Reader View” (like Safari’s or Readability) to Chrome.
- Run in Terminal for VS Code - Use a keyboard shortcut to run any command in the Integrated Terminal of Virtual Studio Code.
- VS Code Markdown Notes - Navigate notes with
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