My coping mechanism in the age of AI: write more Proto-Indo-European papers. Here’s a story on the origin of PIE mobility. I argue that in Pre-PIE, a rule operated that whereby heavy syllables attracted stress from the root to the ending. I focus on root nouns and verbs.

Yes, Joyce was exploring the prior layers of language. Here's a project that lets you explore those prior stages: latentspacecraft.antikythera… Glad to se that the industry is coming to the same conclusion!

See you next month at Gray Area in San Francisco A double-lecture by Benjamin Bratton (Antikythera) and Marek Poliks (Disintegrator) on how the coming world of trillions of agents and fully automated agentic systems will reconfigure society. ​Benjamin Bratton presents Agentworld, a new Antikythera research unit which investigates new frameworks for understanding, modeling and composing the medium-term future of hybrid human-AI societies. ​Marek Poliks presents Superdark Factory, a Disintegrator project published as part of the Agentworld Special Issue in the Antikythera Journal. Superdark Factory takes up the future of software production once the human sits outside the loop in fully-automated agentic systems. luma.com/fawtwq0b

When a paper becomes a piece of art. We’re exhibiting our Latent Spacecraft GAN models with @mthvn @begusgasper at the Hidden Layers exhibition. Come see the artworks at the Worth Ryder Gallery in Berkeley. The opening reception is today, 9/3, and we run until 10/3.