Artificial Intelligence
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Open thread: Geopolitics and any other interesting news
Open Thread on geopolitics and other news, 16 September 2026. It opens with gold prices, market trends and SIPs, whether AI will kill humanity within a decade, and an India–Pakistan…
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F*ck Your Algorithm, My People Are Still Colonised
X.T.M argues that a Google Gemini summary on French West Africa repeats colonial language, framing Islam as an obstacle to a civilising mission. He calls this Islamophobia by default and…
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Artificial Intelligence? A comment.
Shares a friend’s tweet on whether machines can be intelligent and adds a reply. It argues reasoning models and agents are advancing fast, but that machine intelligence will be fundamentally…
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H/acc — Towards a Hindu Reading of Accelerationism
A long essay, first published in March 2023, offering a Hindu reading of accelerationism. It treats technocapital and AI as an inhuman process, draws on Nick Land, invokes Narasimha, and…
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Book Review: Four Battlegrounds by Paul Scharre (AI Defense Applications)
Hamid Hussain reviews Paul Scharre’s Four Battlegrounds as a fascinating account of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies in warfare, describing how AI aids intelligence analysis and autonomous systems and…
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Midjourney v 5 and various Indian ethnicities
A short post about Midjourney v5 images of various Indian ethnicities, inviting readers to guess the ethnicity from the image names.
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Faces of women of the world
Razib Khan generates Midjourney portraits of women by nationality and Indian ethnicity, noting that obscure groups tend to come out looking East Asian, and that some results make sense while…
