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Damien Williams

AI in Sci-Fi

in What Sci-Fi Futures Can (and Can't) Teach Us About AI Policy

What I hope we can do in this panel is have a slightly more literary discussion to try to answer well why were those the stories that we were telling and what has been the point of telling those stories even though they don’t now necessarily always align with the policy problems that we’re having.

Mindful Cyborgs #54 — A Positive Vision of Transhumanism and AI with Damien Williams

in Mindful Cyborgs

I don’t think it’s going to be necessarily a problem within the next five to ten, fifteen, to maybe even twenty years. But my perspective on it has always been, because I am more philosophically focused in these things, why not try to address the issues before they arrive? Why not try to think about these questions before they become problems that we have to fix?

Mindful Cyborgs #55 — Magick & the Occult within the Internet and Corporations with Damien Williams

in Mindful Cyborgs

We can see the hidden, occult operations of programmers, of people who are seeking to get very specific outcomes by operating on very particular components, ritually operating within very particular symbolic frameworks. People who are using particular coding languages, people who are using particular setups of hardware because for their purposes, for their end goals, these are the things that get the job done. These are the things that have the resonance and the capability, the power, the efficacy, to do the work.

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