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Elizabeth and Abraham leave the fellow ship
If you played Ultima VII, you remember the velvet-gloved menace of the Fellowship—and the two smiling fundraisers who always seemed to be one step ahead: Elizabeth and Abraham. Old-school lore hounds long read them as a wink (and a jab) at Electronic Arts—E. & A., “acquaintances of the Guardian,” woven into Britannia’s satire of corporate Continue reading
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HAL is not for profit
Silicon Valley is selling artificial intelligence as an economy-wide cure-all. Strip away the theatrics and you find a familiar cycle: when genuine breakthroughs slow, the marketing gets louder. The last half-century’s growth rode semiconductors and microelectronics; that engine is sputtering. We hit the power wall when Dennard scaling broke down in the mid-2000s, ending the Continue reading
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