Devs, Oracles, and the Alpha Female
Devs is an eight-hour film about computerland. This post will do a reading of Devs, and Garland’s previous film, Ex Machina, but before I do that I want to talk briefly about what computerlan…
Devs is an eight-hour film about computerland. This post will do a reading of Devs , and Garland’s previous film, Ex Machina , but before I do that I want to talk briefly about what computerland is, and why we might care. In an essay for FQXi’s prize competition this year, I defined computerland as the pair of claims that (1) we, and our societies, are computers; (2) physical reality itself is a computer simulation (or might as well be). Computerland takes these and makes an ideological and total account of what the world might, at heart, really be about. In that sense it’s n
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