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Against The Dark Forest

Erin Kissane | Wreckage/Salvage | 29th November 2024 | U

The internet today comprises a “perilous aboveground” — the dark forest of predatory advertisers, tracking bots, clickbait creators, and a “cozyweb refuge underground” — private spaces of retreat. But what about people without those forms of access and capital? Should they “just hack their way through that forest — which is so much gnarlier now than it was when we built it?” (4,700 words)

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Black Hole Puzzle

John Carlos Baez | Azimuth | 30th November 2024 | U

“101 starship captains, bored with life in the Federation, arrange their starships in a line, equally spaced, and let them fall straight into an enormous spherically symmetrical black hole — one after the other. What does the 51st captain see?” At all times, he sees 50 starships in front of and behind him. He never sees any starship hit the singularity, because the singularity is always in his future (1,200 words)

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