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Yudkowsky’s explicit goal in ‘Staring into the Singularity’ is to bring about AI – the singularity – as soon as possible.

“I have had it. I have had it with crack houses, dictatorships, torture chambers, disease, old age, spinal paralysis, and world hunger. I have had it with a planetary death rate of 150,000 sentient beings per day. I have had it with this planet. I have had it with mortality. None of this is necessary. The time has come to stop turning away from the mugging on the corner, the beggar on the street. It is no longer necessary to look nervously away, repeating the mantra: “I can’t solve all the problems of the world.” We can. We can end this.”

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Tom Chivers – Yapay Zekâ Senden Nefret Etmiyor (2023)

Yapay zekâ teknolojisi şimdiden öngörülenin ötesine geçmeye başladı. Yine de yapay zekâyla ilgili asıl korkutucu olan şey yapay zekânın öz bilinç ve özgür irade geliştirerek bize karşı isyan etmesi değil, dünyayı ve insanlığı yok etmesi. Ne de olsa bizler yapay zekâ için yalnızca atomlardan ibaret olabiliriz! Ödüllü yazar Tom Chivers tarafından kaleme alınan ve The Times’ın “Yılın Bilim…

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What are these numbers? 4 Ways to Check Statistics in the Media

What are these numbers? 4 Ways to Check Statistics in the Media #TomChivers #economics #statistics

Popularizer of science Tom Chivers gives advice on how not to fall for the bait of loud headlines. A functioning democratic state is impossible without a literate population. This fact has been recognized since at least the middle of the Victorian era. The Reform Act of 1867 expanded the voting rights of many working-class men, not all of whom were literate, and the elite were concerned that it…

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Servant Drone one of SJ Fowler’s 3:AM MAGAZINE 2015 Top Reads

‘Brilliant collaborative poetry collection (of which there are far too few) taking on a necessary issue in necessarily disjunctive ways.’

SJ Fowler 3:AM magazine on Servant Drone

We made the 3:AM MAGAZINE Top Reads of 2015 list for Steven J. Fowler. It’s exciting to be alongside the stellar company of;

Tom Jenks, Spruce (Blart Books)

One of most overlooked poets in the UK, doing the work conceptualism should be doing, getting to the heart of uniquely British ennui through splicing methodology and jet black humour.

Sandeep Parmar, Eidolon (Shearsman Books)

High modernism powerfully maintained and redeployed by one of the most interesting poets crossing the American / UK scene.

Tom Chivers, Dark Islands (Test Centre)

One of the clearest voices in British poetry in his finest work to date, beautiful rendered, written and designed.

Emma Hammond, The Story of No (Penned in the Margins)

Powerful for it’s immediacy, incredibly sophisticated for it’s lack of pretension in the face of profoundly personal poetry. Amazing book.

Christodoulos Makris, The Architecture of Chance (wurm press)

This is the future of a poetry which reflects our world of language without dispensing with the expressionistic skill of interpreting that language. Found text lies with lyrical poetry, a thorough achievement to balance them to such effect.

Peter Jaeger, A Field Guide to Lost Things (If P Then Q press)

Clever, resonant and profound, as all of Peter Jaeger’s works are, a fine example of the possibilities of contextual, process-orientated thinking getting to the heart of contemporary poetry.

Michael Thomas Taren, Eunuchs (Ugly Duckling Presse)

Best possible example of what is possible in contemporary American poetics of my generation. Excessive, authentic, ambitious.

Rebecca Perry, Beauty/Beauty (Bloodaxe Books)

Reflective and observational in the most well conceived way, a clear poetic experience as a book, it accumulates and resonates as a collection.

Lee Harwood, The Orchid Boat (Enitharmon Press)

The last work by one of the most interesting poets in the English language in the latter half of the 20th century, a typically beautiful book.

Bruno Neiva & Paul Hawkins, Servant Drone (Knives Forks and Spoons Press)

Brilliant collaborative poetry collection (of which there are far too few) taking on a necessary issue in necessarily disjunctive ways.

Thanks Steve and 3:AM MAGAZINE

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When you start to think in universal time spans, your perception of humanity must necessarily change. Differences of opinion seem pathetic. National borders become ridiculous. The only thing that starts to be important to me is material reality and understanding how it operates and how matter itself came into being in the first place. “Accepting that not only will I die, but so will everyone I know and everyone I don’t know – and humanity, and the universe itself – brought me a very deep and profound peace. I don’t have to run away from the fear of oblivion. I am not afraid. I celebrate reality. I don’t have to pretend that there will be some magic deus ex machina in the third act of my life which will make it all OK and give me a happy ending. It is enough that I exist, that I am here now, albeit briefly, with all of you. And it’s an amazing, astonishing, remarkable, totally mind-blowing fucking miracle.

Gia Milinovich c/o Tom Chivers for Buzzfeed’s ‘I Asked Atheists How They Find Meaning In A Purposeless Universe’ 

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CREATING THE LOCAL SPACE The Saison Poetry Library

What impact does the environment have on the act of creation?

"Contemplate the concept of local with our current exhibition artist Ntiense Eno Amooquaye, Sam Jones from Intoart, writer Mary Paterson, poet Tom Chivers and Poetry Librarian Chris McCabe."

Free, but space is limited. To book, please [email protected].

Saison Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall

More info here. 

Part of Ntiense Eno Amooquaye's exhibition Hera Master Come Down 4th March – 13th April 2014