Imagine the most extreme possible factory: a factory that drives itself, a factory that determines its own objectives and optimizes itself to accomplish them. It is something like a fully automated firm, a company with no people inside, a recursively self-optimizing body that decides what to make, how to make it, and why. How might one build such a thing? What would it mean to steer or govern such a thing? Marek Poliks, Roberto Alonso Trillo, @tylerjdunn, @hscottdouglas & @thejaymo call this factory a superdark factory, a factory whose insides churn too quickly to comprehend, whose logics branch into tangles too dense to reconstruct, and whose standards of performance are too ephemeral to direct. They believe that it is possible to build such a factory now, with existing tools, should one decide to do so. Read The Superdark Factory in Antikythera Journal at Get the EPUB at