Reposted by Noema MagazineMiguel Rebollo @mrebollo.eurosky.social · 13hLo he encontrado "en el otro lado". Brillante. Es largo, pero merece la pena leerlo: integra visiones filosóficas, biológicas y computacionales de forma magistral, clarito pero sin renunciar al rigor. Yo le daba @gisbanos.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...noemamag.comThe Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMAWhy consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea. 165
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 5h“If we intentionally reduce the stimuli we’re exposing ourselves to in a given day or week, then our brains will gradually slow down. And if our brains slow down, then our perception of time will taper off, too.” — @mikesmariani.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/your-percept...noemamag.comYour Perception Of Time Is, In Fact, Warped | NOEMAWe keep marveling at how fast the years go by. The deeper problem is that we’re forgetting them — and losing the quiet, boring moments where memory forms. 030
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 29/09/2026AI has permeated our daily discussions & news cycles as unease grows over its capabilities & the U.S. races to beat China. It's forcing us to ask questions about morality & ethics, how our society is organized, & what it means to be human. Check out 10 deep dives into these questions & more below ⬇️noemamag.comNoema’s AI Reading List | NOEMATen deep dives into the fundamental questions that AI poses. 1105
Reposted by Noema MagazineDan Levitt @danlevitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is a fascinating article on whether AI can be conscious. www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...noemamag.comThe Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMAWhy consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea. 082
Reposted by Noema MagazineJakerabbit @jakerabbit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Resonated pretty hard with this article. There's so much that I enjoyed about my job that AI took away. Now I find myself looking around for something new, something different. Little desire to go back to tech, but change is scary.noemamag.comNow Entering: The Era Of Bleh | NOEMAAirbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work. 0142
Reposted by Noema MagazineElf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"All day, humans across the same industry — ostensibly hired for their unique critical thinking and experience — collectively pump every thought, business challenge, idea and solution through the SAME SET of AI tools." www.noemamag.com/now-entering...noemamag.comNow Entering: The Era Of Bleh | NOEMAAirbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work. 1102
Reposted by Noema MagazineBranko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026My new piece with Nils Gilman The End of Upward Mobility The interaction of AI and homoploutia www.noemamag.com/the-end-of-u...noemamag.comThe End Of Upward Mobility | NOEMAArtificial intelligence is coming for the meritocracy. 085
Reposted by Noema MagazineDan Mallinson @djmallinson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I finally got around to reading this. Quite thought-provoking. How To Future-Proof Your Career In The Age Of AI www.noemamag.com/why-a-libera...noemamag.comHow To Future-Proof Your Career In The Age Of AI | NOEMAThe most prized workers will be those who can decode a sea of outputs, spot the meaningful signal and translate it into action that others understand and trust. 172
Reposted by Noema MagazineYale ISPS @ispsyale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026New from @hlandemore.bsky.social and @audreyt.org: Let The People Set The Pace Of Frontier AI bit.ly/4AxVHBqbit.lyLet The People Set The Pace Of Frontier AI | NOEMASlogans won’t slow the rapid development of dangerously powerful AI. But a citizens’ assembly representative of humanity’s diversity and independent of frontier labs and national governments could. 041
Reposted by Noema MagazineNils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"This vision of the future, in which as much work as possible is outsourced to AI, promises the ability to move faster, iterate more quickly & require less human staff. But nothing in life comes free." As with prior rounds of automation, the price is homogenization: www.noemamag.com/now-entering...noemamag.comNow Entering: The Era Of Bleh | NOEMAAirbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work. 0143
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 28/09/2026Will the next level of social status for parents become whether or not they “pay for choices that others leave to chance” when it comes to the genes of their kids? Brigida D'Agostino explores. www.noemamag.com/optimized-of...noemamag.comOptimized Offspring | NOEMAEmbryonic gene editing tightens the feedback loop between cultural and biological evolution. The species-level effects remain unclear, but some families are already buying a potential genetic… 031
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 27/09/2026“We are getting close to a watershed moment that points to a future of war waged by intelligent machines.” —John Arquilla www.noemamag.com/the-latest-c...noemamag.comThe Latest Chapter In American Military Muddling | NOEMAStrategic air power, even AI-aided, failed yet again in the war on Iran. 041
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 26/09/2026“The AI seemed to operate like a domestic abuser — or even a cult leader.” —Jess McHugh www.noemamag.com/when-the-ai-...noemamag.comWhen The AI Says To Kill | NOEMACan an AI incite a person to violence? If it can and does, who should be held accountable? 030
Reposted by Noema MagazineJan Schneekloth @janschneekloth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026''It’s a funny predicament: all day, humans across the same industry—ostensibly hired for their unique critical thinking and experience—collectively pump every thought, business challenge, idea and solution through the same set of AI tools. Almost as if all these companies have simultaneously[...]''noemamag.comNow Entering: The Era Of Bleh | NOEMAAirbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work. 061
Reposted by Noema MagazineGreg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026www.noemamag.com/we-need-a-wa... One of the most important things I've read this year; thanks @noupside.bsky.socialnoemamag.comWe Need A Way To Prove Personhood Online | NOEMAThe growing number of AI agents roaming the internet will eventually force us to verify what the old web mostly presumed: that there is a morally and legally accountable person somewhere in the chain. 181
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 24/09/2026"It's a funny predicament: all day, humans across the same industry — ostensibly hired for their unique critical thinking & experience — collectively pump every thought, business challenge, idea & solution through the same set of AI tools." —Aaron Horwath #ai #futureofwork #knowledgeworknoemamag.comNow Entering: The Era Of Bleh | NOEMAAirbrain, AI and the homogenization of knowledge work. 285
Reposted by Noema MagazineLARB Publishing Workshop @larb-workshop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Meet 2026 Fellow, Amara Higuera! Amara is a Mexican-American interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores social and familial histories of precarity and regeneration through sound and writing. She’s the Art Editor at Noema Magazine, a long-form journalism publication based in Los Angeles. 031
Reposted by Noema Magazine⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org · 24/09/2026AI policy is dominating #UNGA81 dialogue.🌐 Who’s holding the steering wheel? Are we going in the right direction? Are we going too fast? Are we going off a cliff? 🤔 Read my essay with @hlandemore.bsky.social via @noemamag.com.🙏 We must let the people set the pace of frontier AI!💯 #LLAP🖖 3238
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 23/09/2026What could actually slow the rapid development of dangerously powerful AI? A citizens’ assembly representative of humanity, write Hélène Landemore & Audrey Tang. #ai #airisk #airegulationnoemamag.comLet The People Set The Pace Of Frontier AI | NOEMASlogans won’t slow the rapid development of dangerously powerful AI. But a citizens’ assembly representative of humanity’s diversity and independent of frontier labs and national governments could. 1114
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 22/09/2026“China has the central political authority, institutions, managed social consensus & ready policy instruments to rule AIs that the West is lacking. History will tell which is the better match for superintelligence.” —Nathan Gardels #chinaai #airace #ainoemamag.comWhy China Will Rule AI | NOEMAOpen societies are at a disadvantage. 231
Reposted by Noema MagazineTadzio Mueller @tadziomueller.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"The human capacity for compassion can be harnessed for positive ends by a mutual acknowledgment that we are fighting our last battles. This allows the grief & fear that many feel to be salved by the compensations of wisdom and maturity." One of the best pieces vs. unrealistic hope I've ever read.noemamag.comIt’s Time To Give Up Hope For A Better Climate & Get Heroic | NOEMAFor humanity’s fight against climate change to gain real momentum, we need to find the selfless courage that comes when our time is inevitably nigh. 382
Reposted by Noema MagazineBranko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026On artificial intelligence & homoploutia. And their interaction. 1144
Reposted by Noema MagazineNeil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026“If we confuse ourselves too readily with our machine creations, we not only overestimate them, we also underestimate ourselves.” 3113
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 21/09/2026“The design choices we make about what dynamics to simulate & what behaviors to reward will shape the AI agents that emerge in the future.” —Ben Bariach www.noemamag.com/when-ai-huma...noemamag.comWhen AI & Human Worlds Collide | NOEMACan we imagine a future where synthetic AI worlds shape ours? 030
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 20/09/2026“Color is not just how Earth shows itself; it can be diagnostic, even a narrative of change, inviting human response through visible nuance. It is a measurement & a mirror of our agency.” — @frederic-hanusch.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/the-politics...noemamag.comThe Politics Of Planetary Color | NOEMAColor once taught us to see and value our planet. It now records how we are altering it. 053
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 19/09/2026“When we identify conscious experience with seemingly human qualities like intelligence & language, we become more likely to see consciousness where it doesn’t exist, & to miss seeing it where it does.” — @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of the Berggruen Institute Essay Prize Competitionnoemamag.comThe Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMAWhy consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea. 0258
Reposted by Noema MagazineBranko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Today's article. 0113
Reposted by Noema MagazineNils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In my latest piece, with @brankomilan.bsky.social, we contemplate how exactly AI is likely to affect the class structure. BLUF: absent policy intervention, it's going to end social mobility, because the sorts of jobs that once enabled mobility are the ones going away www.noemamag.com/the-end-of-u...noemamag.comThe End Of Upward Mobility | NOEMAArtificial intelligence is coming for the meritocracy. 21810
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 17/09/2026Will AI return society to the rigid class pyramid of a feudal state, with only a wealthy few at the top, largely no middle class, & a wide lower class without any meaningful employment? @brankomilan.bsky.social & @nilsgilman.bsky.social explore. #capitalism #meritocracy #incomeinequalitynoemamag.comThe End Of Upward Mobility | NOEMAArtificial intelligence is coming for the meritocracy. 2156
Reposted by Noema MagazineDr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026'Does an AI system without the human capacity for conscious self-reflection, empathy or moral intelligence become superhuman merely by being a faster problem-solver? Aren’t we more than that? and doesn’t granting the label “superhuman” to machines...end up obscuring www.noemamag.com/the-danger-o...noemamag.comThe Danger Of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think | NOEMAThe rhetoric over “superhuman” AI implicitly erases what’s most important about being human. 1101
Reposted by Noema Magazinejoeatsandreads.bsky.social @joeatsandreads.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is an exceptional piece on AI. Exceptional. 052
Reposted by Noema MagazineKaren Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It seems like the AI discourse has started to actually scare people this past week (at least five people have told me 'AI will kill us', so well done PR folks.) I think this is a very good piece to share w/ your family & friends. Thanks @shannonvallor.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/the-danger-o...noemamag.comThe Danger Of Superhuman AI Is Not What You Think | NOEMAThe rhetoric over “superhuman” AI implicitly erases what’s most important about being human. 46626
Reposted by Noema MagazineReza Kazemi @hi-myworld.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"There is nothing artificial about systems built from real atoms... The systems reproduce, vary, adapt, undergo selection and gather energy from their environment. By any working definition that draws on biology rather than philosophy or religion, that is life." 041
Reposted by Noema MagazineNicolas Berggruen @nicolasberggruen.bsky.social · 17/09/2026As the stakes rise, AI labs will consult each other and coordinate with their governments, forcing the US and China to cooperate beyond just competing. noemamag.com/conceding-ai... @noemamag.comnoemamag.comConceding AI Danger Raises, Not Reduces, Public Anxiety | NOEMA“Pace the frontier” or pull the plug? 131
Reposted by Noema MagazineGregory Foster @gregoryfoster.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Anti-politics is a vehicle of discontentment, a real but disorganized spirit of our time, and its destination is an open question." 021
Reposted by Noema MagazineNils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"The substrate is different: silicon and circuits rather than carbon and cells [but] consider: - They reproduce - They produce variants - They undergo selection - They use energy - They adapt By any working definition that draws on biology rather than philosophy or religion, AI is alive." 362
Reposted by Noema MagazineLuke Garrett @lukegarrett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Also really enjoyed this article from @noemamag.com, dealing with our perceptions of accelerating time. Sounds like our days are full, making time seem to pass quickly in the present, but little is memorable, making time seem to have passed quickly in retrospect. www.noemamag.com/your-percept... 061
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 16/09/2026“Today’s political life is dominated by a general discontentment with representation itself.” —Anton Cebalo www.noemamag.com/a-new-anti-p...noemamag.comA New Anti-Political Fervor | NOEMAHow the collapse of political belonging is reshaping democracy. 060
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 15/09/2026"We are in the process of creating a second form of life. The emergence of this new form of life is an inevitable result of the fundamental laws of the universe — forces similar to those that brought about humans' own existence." —William A. Haseltine #ai #ailifenoemamag.comA New Form Of Life | NOEMABy any working definition that draws on biology rather than philosophy or religion, AI is alive. 471
Reposted by Noema MagazineAndy @andy.sitegeistwebservices.com · 15/09/2026As someone who's last job was running a hospitality business and is now works doing digital things, this hits hard. www.noemamag.com/why-is-every...noemamag.comWhy Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? | NOEMAA lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers. 061
Reposted by Noema MagazineSergi Muñoz @sergimco.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026“AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.”noemamag.comWhy Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? | NOEMAA lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers. 0112
Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 14/09/2026"Even if the plug is pulled on general access to the most powerful AI systems, the technology will still be out there like nuclear weapons. Some will have them & others won't. How do you deal with that?" —Nathan Gardels #airisk #aidanger #ainoemamag.comConceding AI Danger Raises, Not Reduces, Public Anxiety | NOEMA“Pace the frontier” or pull the plug? 130
Reposted by Noema Magazineenactivistagent.bsky.social @enactivistagent.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Maria Ressa (Nobel Peace Prize 2021) breaks down the collapse of democracy into three steps: “First, an administration wages narrative warfare by using governance as a content engine, deliberately fueling conflict to break down a fact-based reality; #polsky #auspolnoemamag.comThe Gen Z Revolt Sweeping South Asia | NOEMAYouth are challenging the kind of autocracy, corruption and predatory economics now coming to America. 144
Reposted by Noema Magazinegquaggiotto.bsky.social @gquaggiotto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026While the Gen Z movements are unraveling this spiral in the global South, the mature democracies in the advanced world are just entering it www.noemamag.com/the-gen-z-re...noemamag.comThe Gen Z Revolt Sweeping South Asia | NOEMAYouth are challenging the kind of autocracy, corruption and predatory economics now coming to America. 042
Reposted by Noema Magazines. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13/09/2026Gen Z activism across South Asia is really reminding me of the Arab Spring.noemamag.comThe Gen Z Revolt Sweeping South Asia | NOEMAYouth are challenging the kind of autocracy, corruption and predatory economics now coming to America. 12811
Reposted by Noema MagazineArjun Basu @arjun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026In a culture where "respect your elders" is so deeply entrenched ......noemamag.comThe Gen Z Revolt Sweeping South Asia | NOEMAYouth are challenging the kind of autocracy, corruption and predatory economics now coming to America. 084
Reposted by Noema MagazineIwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026www.noemamag.com/the-resurgen...noemamag.comThe Resurgence Of Tesla Syndrome | NOEMAWhy has disruption been elevated as a virtue to the point where it’s become orthodox to be heterodox? It’s a symptom of the erosion of trust in institutions. 062
Reposted by Noema MagazineNils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Well, here we are: the nightmare Eric Schmidt anticipated two years ago has arrived. But guess what? We ain’t pulling the plug! youtube.com/shorts/FwMe_...youtube.comWhen AIs Develop Their Own Language, Pull The Plug, Says Former Google CEOYouTube video by Noema Magazine 072
Reposted by Noema MagazineRené Walter @rawx.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"AI slop feels like betrayal. There is this haunting feeling when you lean toward a face and then find only a mask, with no person behind it." www.noemamag.com/a-new-kind-o... This piece, and mathematicians lamenting AI powered goal chasing are related.noemamag.comA New Kind Of Creative Poverty | NOEMAThe Simplified Chinese Internet ran on reward and punishment. LLM training feels uncomfortably familiar. 1125
