LLR Newsletter — Indies presses dominate Goldsmiths, Dalai Lama to publish first children’s book, AI and self-replication, ….
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Books
Indie literary presses dominate Goldsmiths Prize
Four out of six of books shortlisted for the seventh annual Goldsmiths Prize came from small, independent publishers this year with a £10,000 prize, for fiction that “breaks the mould and extends the possibilities of the novel form” awarded to Lucy Ellman
Dalai Lama To Publish First Children’s Book
Puffin will publish the Dalai Lama’s first children’s book, The Seed of Compassion, in March 2020.
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/dalai-lamas-first-children-book-published-puffin-1122571
Technology
Is Self-Replicating AI Real?
…We are used to the impact of AI everywhere around us not just in digital life (from recommendations on Netflix to voice recognition by Siri and Alex) but also in physical: Amazon Go, CCTV surveillance and taxis without drivers [but] what is a bit disappointing, is that this “intelligence” doesn’t seem anything like a human or even biological intelligence…
AI and the Art of Manipulation
Will artificial intelligence one day be able to use our cognitive biases against us?
Geopolitics
Globalisation: The tension between nation-states and the global city
The important political question in the 21st century will be how a modus vivendi between the globalised large cities, and the elites living there, and the rest of their nations can be achieved.
https://www.ips-journal.eu/regions/global/article/show/antifragile-states-and-global-cities-3879/
Curator Bio
Lochlan Bloom is a British novelist and co-founder of Unsound Methods podcast. He is the author of the novel The Wave and has written for BBC Radio, Philosophy Now, Slant Magazine, Litro Magazine, Porcelain Film, IronBox Films, The Metropolist, H+ Magazine, Palladium Magazine and Calliope, the official publication of the Writers’ Special Interest Group (SIG) of American Mensa, amongst others. https://twitter.com/lochlanbloom
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