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machine intelligence in a human world

References

Much of what I write here is cobbled together from random thoughts that have popped into my head, but where I have a clear understanding of where those ideas originated I try to cite the reference. References appear as footnotes on individual posts, but a full list of works cited in this collection follows:

  1. Anthropic. (2023). Claude (AI). https://claude.ai/. [1] [2] [3]
  2. Asimov, Isaac. (1954). The Caves of Steel. [1]
  3. Bakan, Joel. (2004). The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. https://joelbakan.com/the-corporation-book/. [1]
  4. Beato, Rick. (2026). The Internet Is Dead…And Nobody Cares. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUSY6mtqQDI. [1]
  5. Bellefontaine, Michelle. (2026). Meta building its first Canadian data centre northeast of Edmonton. CBC. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/meta-data-centre-sturgeon-county-alberta-9.7263271. [1]
  6. Bloomberg Podcasts. (2026). Anthropic, OpenAI Should Not Be Allowed to IPO, Says Ed Zitron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKDmkJPVvI. [1]
  7. Ciolli, Joe. (2026). 3 stats that explain SpaceX's $1 trillion stock wipeout. Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-stock-crash-outlook-selloff-post-ipo-performance-key-stats-2026-7. [1]
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  9. ConcernedApe, Ryan Novak. (2024). The Official Stardew Valley Cookbook. [1]
  10. Crichton, Michael. (1990). Jurassic Park. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(novel). [1]
  11. Darwin, Charles. (1859). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
  12. Doctorow, Cory. (2026). The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late. Verso Books. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
  13. Doctorow, Cory. (2022). Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. [1]
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  17. Giants Software. (2024). Farming Simulator 25. https://www.farming-simulator.com/. [1]
  18. Gilligan, Vince. (2025). Pluribus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluribus_(TV_series).
  19. Hawley, Michelle. (2024). Exploring Air Canada's AI Chatbot Dilemma. CMSWIRE. https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/exploring-air-canadas-ai-chatbot-dilemma/. [1]
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  23. Li, Justin; Maimann, Kevin. (2026). Google updates maps to show Lake America in the U.S. — but Canadians are now seeing it, too. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/google-updates-maps-lake-ontario-9.7325922. [1]
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  30. Ollama Inc. (2023). Ollama. https://ollama.com/. [1]
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  32. Penrose, Roger. (1989). The Emperor's New Mind. Oxford Landmark Science. [1]
  33. Petersen, Wolfgang. (1984). The NeverEnding Story. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088323/. [1]
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  38. Shelley, Mary. (1818). Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
  39. Smith, Daniel, et al.. (2017). Cooperation and the evolution of hunter-gatherer storytelling. Nature Communications. 8(1853). https://rdcu.be/fqDbX. [1]
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  41. Stewart, Jon. (2026). AI and the Enshittification Era w/ Cory Doctorow. The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dAIJRjb-Bw. [1]
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  44. The Tech Report and Eli the Computer Guy. (2026). “I’m really starting to see these companies as criminal enterprises” | Eli the Computer Guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkWr19vocIE&t=914s. [1]
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  47. Torvolds, Linus. (2026). Keynote, Open Source Summit North America 2026. [1]
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  49. University of California, Berkeley. (1999). SETI@Home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home. [1]
  50. Vanderhelm, Joe; Rapid Fire Theatre. (2026). Plays by [Blanks]. Edmonton International Fringe Festival. [1]
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  53. Wilkins, Joe. (2026). Adobe in Trouble After Someone Reverse Engineered Adobe Creative Suite and Released It as Open Source. Futurism. https://futurism.com/future-society/adobe-creative-suite-software-open-source-artcraft. [1]

Note: I add citation references to articles when I write and schedule them, not when the article is actually published. There may be referenced listed on this page for unpublished articles ( and in some cases this is a week or two ahead.)