I used to look forward to the day the gerontocratic elite, that doesn’t understand the internet, ceded power Now I’ve seen how people who grew up on the internet think…

One way to think about art is that it’s “true”—it’s the truest way to describe feelings, given the limits of language Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks” is a “true statement” about what it feels like to divorce—a high dimensional embedding of the vastly higher dimensional

No, I would not give my kid 1000 IQ if that were possible 1. If he’s no longer human (“all too human”) — if his internal experience is as foreign to me as a wolf’s is to a chihuahua’s; if he cannot read the Iliad and Middlemarch and see himself in these stories; if he doesn’t

It's decel to assume we'll need humans for IQ, that we won't get all the IQ we need from machines

If Mamdani is another guy play-acting to get power for himself, that is good, actually. It's the ideologue that truly believes you're immoral, independent of his own desire for power, you should fear. Schmitt talks about it.

Everyone wants to be good at remembering, but it’s just as important to be good at forgetting

Vincent Weisser Every city should be a museum Europe just started a generation early

What’s wrong with an app dedicated to pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth?

The Bible proposes that righteousness is entirely conditional — radically conditional — on your choice to be righteous. At any given moment you can choose. At every moment you must choose in fact. Therapy in general implies there isn’t quite righteousness and you can’t quite

It’s poetic that machine intelligence preys on human intelligence — that its cognitive ascension and our cognitive decline are so entwined

Then after many billons of years, lightyears, this childlike but far from innocent creature, a straw hat on his head, and heart in his breast, part pure, part wicked who would try to form his own shaky picture of this magnificent web. - Herzog (Bellow)