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Tom Chatfield

I asked GPT-3 for a philosophical response. It gave me utter rubbish.

How amazing and interesting is GPT-3? Pretty amazing and pretty interesting. Is it intelligent and can it be said to understand us? No…

5 min readAug 1, 2020

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I asked GPT-3 for a philosophical response. It gave me utter rubbish.

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Tom Chatfield

Day by day through 2020

Normality is something you know by its absence. As I watch things that used to be ordinary slip away, I’m trying to capture something like…

44 min readMar 25, 2020

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Day by day through 2020

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Tom Chatfield

How to tech it easy

Staying connected in a time of isolation

8 min readMar 21, 2020

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How to tech it easy

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OneZero

There’s No Such Thing As ‘Ethical A.I.’

Technologists believe the ethical challenges of A.I. can be solved with code, but the challenges are far more complex

5 min readJan 16, 2020

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There’s No Such Thing As ‘Ethical A.I.’

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Tom Chatfield

Lived Experience

Remembering a life

4 min readNov 1, 2019

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Lived Experience

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Tom Chatfield

A book with shiny writing on the cover

When I was seven or eight years old, I used to pick up paperback novels in bookshops and stare at them: thick squat books with huge shiny…

4 min readJul 23, 2019

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A book with shiny writing on the cover

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Tom Chatfield

Skinner boxes all the way to the Singularity

In her book Addiction by Design, the anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll explores the Las Vegas gambling industry as an epitome of…

9 min readJul 10, 2019

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Skinner boxes all the way to the Singularity

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OneZero

How Video Games Help Us Navigate Real-World Problems

The sci-fi writers Tom Chatfield and Julian Gough discuss how games are becoming an important route to understanding a uniquely challenging…

7 min readJun 19, 2019

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How Video Games Help Us Navigate Real-World Problems

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Tom Chatfield

What Does It Mean to Think Well?

Why we must stop obsessing about perfection and embrace being wrong

11 min readMar 14, 2018

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What Does It Mean to Think Well?

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On writing a Christmas letter

Don’t speak quite yet, memory

5 min readDec 24, 2016

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On writing a Christmas letter

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Tom Chatfield

Tom Chatfield

Author, tech philosopher. Critical thinking textbooks, tech thrillers, explorations of what it means to use tech well http://tomchatfield.net

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