Interesting bits

Every American is bilingual

A system you’re in, but probably never noticed, and now can’t unsee.

Nov 22, 2024 • 

Alistair Croll

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August 2023

How we watermark things

A quick explanation of how we add metadata to content.

Aug 18, 2023 • 

Alistair Croll

How to watermark AI

A post about a post about Unicode

Aug 18, 2023 • 

Alistair Croll

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July 2023

Unicode is all you need

A simple idea for marking AI-generated content would have wide-ranging benefits for humans.

Jul 25, 2023 • 

Alistair Croll

June 2023

I woke up tomorrow

Day one of living with a benevolent AGI

Jun 14, 2023 • 

Alistair Croll

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The last millimetre problem

Apple is Ono-Sendai, and we’re pushing beyond real-time to anticipatory interfaces

Jun 7, 2023 • 

Alistair Croll

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My car is broken and so’s the car industry

Some thoughts on digital obsolescence, carmakers, and rent-taking

Jun 2, 2023 • 

Alistair Croll

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March 2023

Music’s Golden Age

Any song, any time, anywhere, right now. But for how long?

Mar 31, 2023 • 

Alistair Croll

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Why did you pull out an umbrella?

Some hard lessons about being a better conversationalist.

Mar 29, 2023 • 

Alistair Croll

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Social contagion

The real issue with bank regulation in the modern era

Mar 15, 2023 • 

Alistair Croll

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February 2023

What comes after the attention economy?

Channeling Herbert Simon to understand post-AI scarcity and abundance

Feb 4, 2023 • 

Alistair Croll

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January 2023

Play your part

Remixing my thinking on AI-generated art.

Jan 18, 2023 • 

Alistair Croll

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