The Hollerith Tabulator, IBM, Technocracy, Inc, Howard Scott, M. King Hubbert, Joshua Haldeman, the North American Technate, and Elon Musk; Project Phoenix, Arpanet, and the birth of the internet in counterinsurgency; “Feedback Mechanisms a…Lab introduction to Colab/Python, huggingface, Github, et al
Readings: qntm, There is no Antimemetics Division
Nadia Asparouhova, Antimemetics, Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading
Notes on Thinking Machine Imaginaries: Llull, Leibniz, and Love…
QNTM
writer · 4 mentions across 3 readings
In this course
QNTM is a speculative fiction author whose work on the SCP Foundation wiki explores conceptual hazards—ideas so dangerous or anomalous they resist documentation and cognition itself—making them a crucial reference point for thinking about how information systems might fail or be weaponized. In this course, their "Antimemetics Division" narratives function as thought experiments about memetic contagion and epistemic vulnerability, enabling discussion of how AI systems might propagate harmful patterns or resist human understanding through their own opaque decision-making. Their fictional framework of ideas that cannot be safely contained or transmitted becomes a metaphor for examining real risks in machine learning and information technology.
Mentioned in 3 readings
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Ada Lovelace 1Adam Elkus 1Cory Doctorow 1Devo 1Gaston Bachelard 1Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 1Jean Baudrillard 1Marc Andreessen 1Michael Bazzell 1Nadia Asparouhova 1Ramon Llull 1Scarlett Johansson 1Carl von Clausewitz 1Claude Elwood Shannon 1Elon Reeve Musk 1Fan Hui 1Francis Bacon 1Francisco Varela 1Heinz von Foerster 1Howard Scott 1Humberto Maturana 1Joshua Haldeman 1Marion King Hubbert 1Max Weber 1Napoleon Bonaparte 1Niccolò Machiavelli 1Sun Tzu 1Thucydides 1William Edward Burghardt Du Bois 1Marion Wheeler 1