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The Algorithmocene
Hacking the Anthropocene’s cultural operating system
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Sean Lee
Mar 1, 2023
“Harmless AI” isn’t an Engineering Challenge. It’s an Oxymoron.
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Sean Lee
Feb 9, 2023
Can we ever know if an AI is sentient? The algorithmic complexity hypothesis
How the metaphor of…
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Sean Lee
Feb 5, 2023
How generative AI nukes our naive notions of truth and reality
When an AI mimics human word strings by…
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Sean Lee
Jan 22, 2023
The Algorithmocene Mini-Manifesto Illustrated with Generative AI
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Sean Lee
Nov 12, 2022
A “Moore’s Law” of human culture and ancient wisdom for our dark century
A longish meditation on the…
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Sean Lee
Jul 12, 2022
Our essential homo ubuntu and the origins of human nature
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Sean Lee
Jun 12, 2022
The Pandemic of Our Age: Sociopathy and the Viral Death of Democracy
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Sean Lee
May 14, 2022
A Miniature Manifesto for the Future Algorithmocene
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Sean Lee
Mar 23, 2022
Does civilization have to be this way? The mystery of Çatalhöyük and the power of storytelling
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Sean Lee
Jan 29, 2021
Life as a cosmic Ponzi scheme. Part 2
A three-part meditation on the “meaning of life” at large scales. Part 1 highlights a
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