Chad Woodford
@cosmic.diamonds
Philosopher, Cosmologist, AI Ethicist & Tech Lawyer
bio.site/cosmicwit
bio.site/cosmicwit
I had Nano Banana explain #transhumanism in the style of R. Crumb. Color me impressed!
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I had Nano Banana explain #transhumanism in the style of R. Crumb. Color me impressed!
I’m working on a new post about the ways that current AI systems are primarily a perfection of this Wétigo force. Stay tuned….
October 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I’m working on a new post about the ways that current AI systems are primarily a perfection of this Wétigo force. Stay tuned….
It’s important to revisit influential books from the past and evaluate their promises. For example, in Sapiens (2011), Yuval Harari says that we will soon have resurrected Wooly Mammoths, cyborg insects, and cyborg sharks. None of these has yet materialized.
August 3, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It’s important to revisit influential books from the past and evaluate their promises. For example, in Sapiens (2011), Yuval Harari says that we will soon have resurrected Wooly Mammoths, cyborg insects, and cyborg sharks. None of these has yet materialized.
I’ve been thinking lately about how #AI is a great tool for laundering dubious ideas and lending them the patina of objective rationality
(Excerpt from Richard Barbrook’s enlightening book Imaginary Futures)
(Excerpt from Richard Barbrook’s enlightening book Imaginary Futures)
May 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I’ve been thinking lately about how #AI is a great tool for laundering dubious ideas and lending them the patina of objective rationality
(Excerpt from Richard Barbrook’s enlightening book Imaginary Futures)
(Excerpt from Richard Barbrook’s enlightening book Imaginary Futures)
I did not know that George Lucas was that explicit about Star Wars! From @adambecker.bsky.social ’s wonderful new book about the strange Silicon Valley ideologies driving tech innovation
May 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I did not know that George Lucas was that explicit about Star Wars! From @adambecker.bsky.social ’s wonderful new book about the strange Silicon Valley ideologies driving tech innovation
I decided to check out Meta's new social AI thing or whatever it is and this is the first thing I saw. So that's how that went. You will find me in the forest asking nature question now...
May 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I decided to check out Meta's new social AI thing or whatever it is and this is the first thing I saw. So that's how that went. You will find me in the forest asking nature question now...
In addition to the other 99 problems with #seasteading the thing I would miss is trees, man 🌳
April 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
In addition to the other 99 problems with #seasteading the thing I would miss is trees, man 🌳
Los Feliz wasn’t bad either
April 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Los Feliz wasn’t bad either
This is why it's so important that we have people with humanities degrees and emotional intelligence working the field. Reminds me of a similar post by Yann. "Emotions are anticipation of outcome?" Bro, do you even feel?
March 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
This is why it's so important that we have people with humanities degrees and emotional intelligence working the field. Reminds me of a similar post by Yann. "Emotions are anticipation of outcome?" Bro, do you even feel?
Thinking about this chilling parallel from Nazi Germany a lot lately (from the wonderful Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson)
March 16, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Thinking about this chilling parallel from Nazi Germany a lot lately (from the wonderful Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson)
We as a country are the passengers on the imploding Titan submersible piloted by an egotistical, regulation-hating rich guy, except 2/3 of us didn’t sign up for this
February 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We as a country are the passengers on the imploding Titan submersible piloted by an egotistical, regulation-hating rich guy, except 2/3 of us didn’t sign up for this
Been thinking about this quote about the limits of AI systems from @shannonvallor.bsky.social a lot lately. I highly recommend AI Mirror if you haven’t read it. It’s been hugely influential on my book about AI and human faculties outside of cognitive intelligence
February 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Been thinking about this quote about the limits of AI systems from @shannonvallor.bsky.social a lot lately. I highly recommend AI Mirror if you haven’t read it. It’s been hugely influential on my book about AI and human faculties outside of cognitive intelligence
I've been planning to watch Judgment at Nuremberg for a while but watching it now feels like homework 😒
February 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I've been planning to watch Judgment at Nuremberg for a while but watching it now feels like homework 😒
How the German press feels about Elon Musk #sparminator
December 24, 2024 at 2:28 PM
How the German press feels about Elon Musk #sparminator
So of course the first thing I asked Google Gemini’s #DeepResearch was to solve the hard problem of #consciousness
The report was really impressive but, sadly, it’s still not solved ☹️
The report was really impressive but, sadly, it’s still not solved ☹️
December 11, 2024 at 7:17 PM
So of course the first thing I asked Google Gemini’s #DeepResearch was to solve the hard problem of #consciousness
The report was really impressive but, sadly, it’s still not solved ☹️
The report was really impressive but, sadly, it’s still not solved ☹️
I don't know when #midjourney added the ability to include specific phrases in quotes but that is absolutely a game changer in AI image generation!
November 16, 2024 at 4:59 PM
I don't know when #midjourney added the ability to include specific phrases in quotes but that is absolutely a game changer in AI image generation!