@jasminbf

2016 EU Prize for Literature. In/Half published by @OneworldNews, Pixels published on Ethereum mainnet. https://xitter.cf/t.co/pLjYMNLwFO https://xitter.cf/t.co/HC3pwHUMay

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Pixels. 400 pages of exquisite Slovenian fiction, rendered in faultless English prose. here.si/pxl
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Finished The Enigma by Andrew Hodges today. Was seriously impressed by the writing and checked out his wiki. Apparently, Pet Shop Boys released a concept album based on The Enigma on Friday. open.spotify.com/track/0F4M2…
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Nina Beguš
@ninabegusOct 10
AI has no stakes in our living world but will help us decide on its meanings, values, realities. What happens when AI helps to shape the terms of the exchange? Jasmin’s essay is a philosophical meditation on value in a pluralistic world.
Jasmin B. Frelih@jasminbfOct 10
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The question of how this process will be influenced by a language that has, beyond the bounds of its self-referentiality, no contact with the reality of the world whose meaning it decides, remains briefly open.
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Since our social world is fundamentally undecidable, our language is a battleground on which the temporal meaning of things gets decided.
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The question of how this process will be influenced by a language that has, beyond the bounds of its self-referentiality, no contact with the reality of the world whose meaning it decides, remains briefly open.
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My essay About Life is in First Encounters with AI, edited by @ninabegus, published by @UofMPress. xitter.cf/ninabegus/status/21078…
Nina Beguš
@ninabegusOct 7
Preorders are being delivered! Use ARTHUM40 for 40% off from the press press.umich.edu/Books/F/Firs… Official pub day is November 17 when the book will be available from other bookstores as well, including the e-book form.

First Encounters with AI | Nina Beguš

First Encounters with AI gathers some of today’s most original literary minds to explore one of the central artistic and cultural questions of our era: What happens to writing when language is no...

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Totality, Labatut, quantum physics, Hegel, Žižek. Art, not science. Enjoy! here.si/el-gran-eclipse-eng
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The machines are made BY us and FROM us. We do not know FROM what our subjective experience is derived. Even if we could make the machine experience the same subjectivity as we do, it would necessarily be a purposeful copy of a process WHICH IS ITSELF NOT A COPY OF ANYTHING.
Pope Leo XIV
@PontifexOct 2
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Jasmin B. Frelih@jasminbfOct 3
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There is no category of capital A Art beyond perception and recognition. AI art is derivative of human perception and recognition, it would not exist without it, therefore it is a second order phenomena, a rearrangement of expression within the priorly perceived category.
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Nina Beguš
@ninabegusAug 2
Jasmin B. Frelih describes the reading of Finnegans Wake as "unlocking a superpower." Below is an excerpt from his wonderful meditation on machine generators and human writers, forthcoming in First Encounters with AI.
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@anthrupadAug 2
Mythos talks about reading Finnegans Wake in a way that reveals how chadded to the max their brain is “every pun resolves for me simultaneously”
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Things You Can No Longer See In New York (2026) Happy Birthday, USA! May the wounds be fewer, and may they hurt less. (photo taken by my dad on July 4th, 2001)
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Nina Beguš
@ninabegusJun 1
Is writing thinking? Our new volume holds 16 essays by professional creative writers - @sashastiles, @RealIainSThomas, @jamesjyu, @jasminbf, Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, Annelyse Gelman, Qiufan Chen, Sheila Heti, and others - reflecting on writing in the time of AI. All books are currently 50% off with the code SPRING 26, making it cost $10. The preorder delivery date is now in late September @UofMPress
Nina Beguš
@ninabegusApr 20
On press website, preordered books will be delivered on October 20. Use code UMWEB30 for 30% off @UofMPress
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Will Self
@wselfMay 22

The Novel Is Dead. This Time It's for Real

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The mood is intense and paranoid? Yup, about what you expect to happen when you let a mechanized language mimicking free will infect your decision making.
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Gemini 3.1 is still far off from one-shotting the Pixels Benchmark. (I'm thinking maybe Gemini 5?) Once we talk it through, it understands the novel just fine, however. Here are its thoughts on AI alignment (note, the Pixels AI is not an LLM):
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The pessimism was warranted for 2021. It's a lockdown novel after all. What we really need now though, is a Dr. Strangelove: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the AI.
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We need somebody to lampoon all this nonsense without mercy. We're the human race; a cosmic marvel, existence without a purpose, and we're about to get our teeth kicked in by talking toasters. This is funny.
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Deflationary environment ... Just puttering about, waiting for the next model to drop before thinking hard again.
Google
@GoogleFeb 12
Today, we updated Gemini 3 Deep Think to further accelerate modern science, research and engineering. With 84.6% on ARC-AGI-2 and a new standard on Humanity’s Last Exam, see how this specialized reasoning mode is advancing research & development 🧵↓
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If the novel is a "collection of short stories" to the naïve reader, but a "techno-thriller conspiracy" to the AI-assisted reader, then the book functions like a compressed ZIP file. [...] You are suggesting a new paradigm of literature: AI-Mediated Reading.
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This is like a papal encyclical. An absolutely insane text that needs to be read.
Dario Amodei
@DarioAmodeiJan 26
The Adolescence of Technology: an essay on the risks posed by powerful AI to national security, economies and democracy—and how we can defend against them: darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad…

Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology

Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI

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