This note responds to the AI contextualisation—extrapolating in the closed concurrent instance of its operation—of what I called a quantised form of government in the post Living in the Time of Artificial Intelligence. It responds therefore to the resource I added yesterday, 6.08.2025: ST: regarding your

The following is a response to Steve Rose's interview with Demis Hassabis, "Demis Hassabis on our AI future: ‘It’ll be 10 times bigger than the Industrial Revolution – and maybe 10 times faster’," in the Guardian, 4 August 2025. It is said that AI is as

I think the advent of AI is similar to that of cinema. In this post I'm going to consider what changes. With cinema changes both our inner and outer experience of time. I believe cinema's affect to have been as rapid as its spread, which was

It seems I'm far more tentative than ChatGPT 4o. Asked about the Skinner box analogy in part 1 of On AI: what do you make of the Skinner box analogy? that Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, neuroscience-inflected neoliberalism, stimulus-response theory, put us in the box? The AI answered*: *[Caution is

*resources follow, at the end of part 1, in the interval, they give a complete and detailed record of the language-prompts and the responses On AI: part 1 My critical attitude towards AI has been directed towards the error of attributing to it consciousness or self-awareness, by way of the

Gareth Simpson, having replied to What Is A Practice? with some great questions, is my interlocutor here. A question put to me by Johannes Birringer in an email (he can let me know whether he minds my using his proper name and I can remove it later) has also prompted