Major preprint just out! We compare how humans and LLMs form judgments across seven epistemological stages. We highlight seven fault lines, points at which humans and LLMs fundamentally diverge: The Grounding fault: Humans anchor judgment in perceptual, embodied, and social

«One of the differences between analytic and nonanalytic philosophy has to do with the object of the philosopher's envy.»

Conscious life is simply the state of existence in which you are divorced from your unobserved possibilities. In death you reunite with them.

The best opening line in any physics textbook: States of Matter by David L. Goodstein ✍️

These boxes are static. I repeat, these boxes are not moving. x.com/i/status/14760…

“I have led a toothless life. A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on—and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

Zoom in 🔎 The word 'goal' is demonised a lot in spiritual circles, and although no achievement of any goal will be ultimately satisfying (I don't believe in any final capital-G Goal), having something more clear to aim for can give direction in life, be incredibly motivating and

stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free:

Most people are living someone else's life. Not because they were forced to, but because they never stopped to ask whose voice was making their choices. Martin Heidegger spent his entire life diagnosing this problem and building a way out. Since Descartes in the 1600s, Western

they stop asking you for ID once the light in your eyes is gone

What makes a "thing" a thing is its relative frequency. Fast activity can perceive slow activities. Slow activities cannot (easily) perceive faster activities (or perceive them as "multiple distinct things")

You cannot stand outside yourself to point at the source of your awareness. Why? Because the moment you try to point at it, you're already viewing from a new position...however, this apparent limitation reveals something profound: -> You can trace a trajectory of awareness

The mathematician plays a game in which he himself invents the rules while the physicist plays a game in which the rules are provided by nature, but as time goes on it becomes increasingly evident that the rules which the mathematician finds interesting are the same as those

Smells like the teleological suspension of the ethical

If you see the world as computation you are guilty of seeing it through the zeitgeist of our time, just as most of us in generations past have done. I’m much more interested in what ideas we can generate now that can help our descendants than I am interested in claiming victory

we are close to agi

has anyone made the mike levin/bodhisattva critique of e/acc? (e.g. "accelerating self-organizing complexity without expanding sphere of care/cognitive light cone is just cancer") via: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC91…