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Taylor Lorenz: A Brief History of Being 'Extremely Online' | Reality Studies Podcast Ep. 1
Listen now (58 mins) | In the debut episode of the Reality Studies Podcast, Jesse Damiani sits down with Taylor Lorenz to talk all things creator…
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Taylor Lorenz
August 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy is Right About One Thing
Where climate denialism horseshoes into climate realism—and how we might use it for more sustainable futures
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Jesse Damiani
How Future Histories Of ‘Other Intelligences’ Clarify Today’s AI
In The Institute for Other Intelligences, Mashinka Firunts Hakopian combines speculative fiction and media theory to propose equitable futures for…
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Jesse Damiani
Critical Readings in AI: The Bigger Picture, vol. 2
A new series focused on AI literacy outside the hype-doom binary. For the second installment, Reality Studies looks at the future of health and medicine…
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Jesse Damiani
On the Apple Vision Pro and Progress Narratives
The Vision Pro might be the future of XR, but what is XR's role in the future?
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Jesse Damiani
June 2023
Invite your friends to read Reality Studies
New referral rewards for the Reality Studies community
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Postreality Poetics
A philosophical approach to poetry and technology; musings from the 'POÈME OBJKT/POÈME SBJKT' exhibition
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Jesse Damiani
Transformers and the Attention Schema Theory—Musings at the Intersection of Deep Learning and Consciousness Studies
The underlying architecture of large language models like GPT-4 has already upended the world of AI, and it's only six years old. What does it mean for…
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Consultations Included with Yearly Subscriptions to Reality Studies
Adding a new benefit for Reality Studies supporters 👀
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Substack and Clubhouse Should Merge
Could such a merger foster better incentives and prosocial behavior on social media?
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Critical Readings in AI: The Bigger Picture
A new series focused on AI literacy outside the hype-doom binary. For the first installment, Reality Studies looks at questions of labor in the context…
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Will Apple's XR Headset Help us 'Think Different' About the Metaverse?
Some thoughts on VR, AR, and the metaverse ahead of next week's WWDC
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Jesse Damiani
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