Technology Archives - Felipe Lavín

La tecnología es la naturaleza desprovista de lujuria

December 1st, 2019

[…] De eso se trata con la tecnología: por una parte, consigue despertar nuestro apetito por la inmortalidad; por otra, amenaza con nuestra extinción universal. La tecnología es la naturaleza desprovista de lujuria. Don Delillo — Ruido de fondo

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Technology

Wired posts about the resurfacing of RSS as an option to social and algorithmic feeds and the unlikely yet hopeful persistence of an emblem of the open web – It’s time to head back to RSS?

ephemera, open web, rss

Published on March 31st, 2018

Article

Understanding Ethereum Smart Contracts

December 5th, 2017

I've always heard that "Ethereum has better technology" than Bitcoin, and that's mostly because of Smart Contracts… which I'm still struggling to understand, if only a little less thanks to this excellent article by Gjermund Bjaanes

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General

An exploration into what happens when you are able to create visual stories that are indistinguishable from reality: post-truth, post-cinema, theoretical photorrealism.

ephemera, fiction, film, post-truth

Published on November 14th, 2017

Article

Simulation, Consciousness, Existence

October 22nd, 2017

Simulation, Consciousness, Existence it’s a lengthy article by Hans Moravec about the theory of reality as simulation, its moral and ethical implications, and ultimately, a discussion of the very notion of reality through the lens of quantum physics… a really perfect way to mess up your mind for the weekend.

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AI is far from intelligent

October 21st, 2017

Douglas Hofstadter raises a very interesting point regarding AI: can you really say that a machine it’s intelligent if it’s not actually thinking? (and not just crunching huge amounts of data to get a probabilistically advantageous answer) If you ask me in principle if it’s possible for a computing hardware to do something like thinking,…

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