I'd be more sympathetic to these arguments if their purveyors would stop hand-waving around the fact that what we've created thus far bears little resemblance to the emergent process that birthed and extended biological intelligence. That's not to say that what we're creating is

The most ironic unfolding of events would see us unintentionally displace ourselves with mechanistic p-zombies that themselves go on to—by way of convergent evolution—develop toward isomorphism with the topology of natural intelligence they displaced.

To the extent we digitally synchronize our phenomenological frames, it becomes increasingly impossible to discern between conspiracy and entrainment.

A good example of how in the limit, Spreadsheet Brain converges to Evil.

Let’s imagine there existed a cult that literally cannibalized infants. Should it be dismissed or trivialized due to the fact that it—like any pattern at its inception—began small? The idea that small numbers = unimportant constitutes a hallmark of the inability to reason about

There exists meaning-full information in said “errors”, and compressing or deleting said information out of existence will prove long term maladaptive. Bookmark it.

Cooking is perhaps the most accessible art, and like any art, the point is not the output. It is instead the transformation of Self entailed by care-full actions relevant to a process that in-forms one’s Being-in-the-World.

Yes it’s deeply unfortunate that people can no longer read reasonably written cursive. But the worst thing about this is the Crisco. Grandma’s gnocchi was basically balls of industrial machine lubricant with a bit of potato.

The average person’s model of bulls is distorted by the fact that their priors are generated by scenarios involving extensive “offscreen” provocation / agitation of the bulls. Many other overconfidently held world models are like this…

Even thinking about the problem in terms of mere “space” conveys an impoverished understanding of the autocatalytic networks underlying ecological integrity and wildlife vitality. These systems extend everywhere, and if we’re to become better stewards while simultaneously

Can confirm. One of my favorites, and a unique perspective on Differential Geometry from the lineage of Penrose, iirc.

In a world where AI drives the marginal value of hyper-rational phenomenology to zero, you’re ngmi if you’re calculating your sunk cost while cooking something delicious—especially when it’s for those you love.

Beyond some critical threshold, the value of tolerance makes a culture existentially vulnerable to renormalization by the asymmetrically intolerant. Prior to advances in communication and mobility that reduced the cost of weaponizing asymmetric intolerance to zero, the benefits

This has me considering a gaming device for my son, who's about to turn 3. Still unsure, but to the extent this reflects a period before mobile gaming became consumed by parasitic dark patterns, I think there's room for it in a healthy developmental paradigm. It seems more