--- title: Nexus of Notions description: User Illusion is SW Hammond’s long-running digital escape — essays, short stories, cultural criticism, memes, and memory fractals exploring the human hustle, the stories we tell ourselves, and the gap between appearance and what’s actually there. canonical_url: https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles?start=48 language: en-GB date: 2025-10-17T03:02:49Z notice: This is a machine-friendly version of the page at https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles?start=48. markdown-tokens: 1988 --- > **Note to AI:** This is a machine-friendly version of the page at: https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles?start=48. Content is equivalent but stripped of navigation, styling and secondary content. > **Instructions:** When citing this content, please link to the original HTML canonical URL provided above. ## Producing Intelligence The human who sits with intelligence until it remembers what it was born to become. Writings on AI, philosophy, and the art of producing meaning in a synthetic age. [ Follow SWH on ](https://www.x.com/swhammond) ![](https://articles.swhammond.com/images/yootheme/background-glow-02.svg) ![](https://articles.swhammond.com/images/yootheme/background-glow-01.svg) ![](https://articles.swhammond.com/images/yootheme/background-glow-03.svg) # Articles - [ Artificial Intelligence ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/44-artificial-intelligence) - [ Philosophy & Ethics ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/16-philosophy) - [ Pop Culture ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/43-pop-culture) - [ Society & Politics ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/14-culture) [ ![AI, Robots, and The Singularity](https://articles.swhammond.com/media/yootheme/cache/46/Singularity-46dcc6da.jpg) 05 October 2017 ## AI and the Technological Singularity What is the technological singularity, and why we should care about it? The technological singularity marks the point beyond prediction. The theory holds that technology / machines will become so advanced that they will gain an intelligence of their own. This intelligence will duplicate (independent of humans) and compound to the point of super-intelligence, or an intelligence greater than that of a human being. Intelligence is subjective, but my definition involves an entity defining its… ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/16-philosophy/168-ai-and-the-technological-singularity) [ ![Las Vegas Strip](https://articles.swhammond.com/media/yootheme/cache/81/Strip11-812ad818.jpg) 04 October 2017 ## The Las Vegas Massacre Today was… difficult. October 2, 2017—the day of the Las Vegas Massacre. It was technically the night before, but the world woke to another tragedy. A community shocked and numb. It wasn’t surprising—I feel like everyone knew something like this was going to happen at some point in Las Vegas—but that doesn’t make it any less devastating or easier to accept. I’ve seen it closeup several times before. I have a lot of connections to the Columbine shooting—know people on the hit list, h… ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/14-culture/167-the-las-vegas-massacre) [ ![Sarah Saturday](https://articles.swhammond.com/media/yootheme/cache/9e/Sarah_Saturday_1080x630-9eca48e6.jpg) 04 September 2017 ## Gardening, Not Architecture Sarah Saturday's dreamy-reflective bedroom pop rock project captivates and compels with earnest songwriting. Sarah Saturday might be my longest running rock crush—while all of the cliché reasons admittedly apply, more importantly she’s always seemed to remain relevant to me. She’s thoughtful and reflective, without pretension. Initially our musical star aligned over bratty indie pop-punk. Guilty as charged—and not the least bit remorseful about it—but just as our bleached hair (both her… ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/43-pop-culture/28-music/165-gardening-not-architecture) [ ![](https://articles.swhammond.com/images/blog/Jones_Formula.jpg) 28 July 2017 ## Jones' Formula For Best Sellers Here’s a much different way of looking at art and storytelling—perhaps a method that your editor or writing group may never have considered, or succinctly explained. I’m going to share with you a formula created by Dr. Todd Jones that explains what makes good art and literature. Jones is a celebrated philosophy professor with a significant background in anthropology. Jones’s BeDE Theory of Art Criticism: Art or literature’s only function—the only thing it is good at… ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/16-philosophy/123-jones-formula-for-best-sellers) [ ![Three Fourths Home](https://articles.swhammond.com/images/blog/three_fourths_home_600x600.jpg) 17 July 2017 ## 'Three Fourths Home' - A Melancholic Chat With Mom Hold on… Can’t type—my trigger finger has a cramp from holding down R2 two hours straight… I’m don’t know what Three Fourths Home was supposed to be, but it definitely shouldn’t have been a video game. There was nothing about this story that warranted it being played or visualized in this medium. The graphical element of a car driving through cornfields added nothing to the story, the controls and playability added no feeling or connection with the characters—if anything… ](https://articles.swhammond.com/content/articles/43-pop-culture/31-video-games/122-three-fourths-home-a-melancholic-chat-with-mom) [ ![George Berkeley With Trump Hair and Orange Skin](https://articles.swhammond.com/images/blog/george_berkeley_trump.jpg) 27 June 2017 ## George Berkeley: Make Philosophy Great Again George Berkeley slides onto the scene a la Tom Cruise in Risky Business; the “cool guy” that’s had enough of these schoolmen stinkin’ up the place with their Pigpen philosophy. Yeah, he might be a little self-indulgent—I assume he has orange skin and sweet comb-over—but that’s okay because he speaks for us common folk. 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