Additional Reading/Primary Documents: Ian J. Goodfellow, et al., Generative Adversarial Nets
BJ Fogg, from Persuasive technology, using computers to change what we think and do
9. November 10 Hopeium, a hell of a drug: Cipherpunks to Finte…What’s the Deal with Birds? v. Birds Aren’t Real– predatory journals, internet hoaxing “Birds are very strange. Some people are like “whoa they’re flying around and stuff, what’s the deal with that?” This sentiment is shared by people acros…
Satoshi Nakamoto
engineer · 3 mentions across 2 readings
In this course
Nakamoto is the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, the foundational cryptocurrency that established blockchain technology as a decentralized alternative to institutional financial intermediation. In the course's framework examining AI, cybernetics, and social systems, Nakamoto's work appears as a critical case study in how algorithmic governance and cryptographic protocols can reshape power structures—moving from the cipherpunk movement's political philosophy (as traced through the course's genealogy) into concrete technological systems that claimed to solve the problem of trust without centralized authority. The readings use Bitcoin's design as an exemplary text for understanding feedback loops between technical innovation, ideological commitment, and economic incentive structures in the age of computational capitalism.
Mentioned in 2 readings
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