Fernando Borretti

Fiction Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino . Beautiful prose and imagination. By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño . Beautiful and surreal prose, but completely unpretentious. a href="https://qntm.org/...

There's a game called Mass Effect , which I haven't played, but I'm told in the game there's this species of sentient robots, the Geth , whose creators try to exterminate them, and the trigger for this Butlerian jihad was a domestic servant Geth looking u

Marcus Hutter -oldheads will remember him from AIXI -recently published a book: Job-Less Utopia: Macroeconomics in the Age of AGI . I'm always curious what the people building AI think or want the future to look like, and I'm also always l...

Yesterday, OpenAI announced the solution to ten open problems in mathematics, all discovered by a yet-unreleased model. There's only one, the coding theory one, where I know enough to say "huh, that's important", but according to the mathematicians I trus

Today, the world is made of people. This gives people a tiny measure of leverage: factory workers can sabotage the machines and halt production, truck drivers can strike and halt the entire economy, the police can stand back and let a protest topple the g

Shall I end this life a pauper? If AI can do all work at human level or better, what stops corporations replacing us all with AI? This is the permanent underclass meme. The idea is: within a few years, all white collar work will be automated by AI, at whi

The most stubborn facts are those of the spirit, not those of the physical world. - Jean Gottmann, Geography and International Relations In 1914, before the First World War, there was this belief : "a European war would be economically disastrous, the mon

When I open a link, say on Hacker News, and I see a blog post or a GitHub README obviously written by AI, I feel a few things. I feel offended, because it's like I've been tricked, like the author thinks I'm a rube who won't notice or mind. I feel sad at

My thoughts on OCaml after two years of building a compiler with it.

The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen, it couldn't compete with the television screen, and it can't compete with the computer screen. - Philip Roth We're halfway through 2026, and according to Goodread