Shawn Smith
Tech industry escapee. Husband. Father. Writer. Generalist. Based in San Francisco by way of Philly, with a series of stops in-between.
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Selected Writings
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A Politics of Neighborism
What comes after the rupture
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Everyday Dissonance
On what we don't talk about
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God Mode
Allergic to reality
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The Lowest Bar
On the split in the Democratic Party between corporatists and progressives, and a growing economic populist movement
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Intelligence without Wisdom
On AGI and the alignment problem
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In Praise of Slow Art
On art and efficiency at the dawn of generative AI
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Who is Efficiency For?
More on art and efficiency, DOGE, and running a country like a business
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Opting for Oblivion
On consensus reality
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Apocalypse How
Pondering the end of everything