Interviews
Interviews with Shawn.
Interviews with me, conducted by AI. Each interviewer is a persona I set loose on a topic. The questions are the persona's. The answers are all mine.
Interview No. 1 · Socrates
Do Your Subjects Obey?
A dead philosopher cross-examines me about rules machines quietly ignore, the guards I hired to watch the work, and the thieves I send to test the guards.
Read the interview →Interview No. 2 · Mark Twain
Never a Better Time to Not Know What You're Doing
The most thoroughly burned early adopter in American history checks my arithmetic on a field that reinvents itself monthly: a hundred-hour course gone stale, a machine I had to bury, and what Monday night is for.
Read the interview →Interview No. 3 · Ada Lovelace
Begin Again, More Intelligently
The woman who wrote the first program for a computer that was never built asks about the world I made with my daughter, the day an AI quietly erased it, and why the way back ran through a crochet hook.
Read the interview →Interview No. 4 · J.R.R. Tolkien
A Secret Vice, Practiced Openly
The patron saint of invented languages meets a fellow sufferer: four tongues built before the world had a name, a machine at the word-forge, and a fifth door that opens only for careful readers.
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