BRC News Dusty Charter, Inc. of Reno Selected to Manage Burner Express Air Carriers for 2018 January 25, 2018 By Burning Man Project Two years ago, we launched the Burner Express Air program with the intention of making it simpler and safer for ...Read More
Tales from the Playa Accuracy Third Podcast Season 3: Episodes 1 and 2 January 24, 2018 By Jon Mitchell The Accuracy Third podcast is back with a third season of stories from Black Rock City. Join Rex, D-Day and Beth ...Read More
The Theme The Three Laws of Robotics Can’t Save Us January 22, 2018 By Caveat Magister Isaac Asimov made some very interesting thought experiments about Artificial Intelligence and the world it creates in I, Robot. But ...Read More
Tales from the Playa Virgin Burn, the Comic January 18, 2018 By John "Halcyon" Styn A year ago I got the coolest request to join our camp EVER. It was from a French cartoonist who ...Read More
BRC Art, Global News, Global Programming How Can We Put Burning Man Culture in a Museum? January 18, 2018 By Affinity This is the second post in a series about “No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man,” the upcoming exhibition at ...Read More
The Theme What if Kafka Was a Cyberpunk? (The Connection Between AI and Bureaucracy) January 16, 2018 By Caveat Magister At the time Kafka wrote his infamous novels about human beings struggling to make sense of a world full of ...Read More
The Theme What Is It We Think Humans Can Do That Robots Can’t? January 8, 2018 By Caveat Magister If this essay were a classic sci-fi script, then by the end the computer I’m writing it on would experience ...Read More
The Theme Why We Get the Robot Overlords We Deserve January 3, 2018 By Caveat Magister Many months ago, while still developing this year’s theme, Larry Harvey began receiving a series of robocalls in which an ...Read More