I lived in Venezuela when Chavez overthrew the government, and watched the Bolivar vanish in value during that moment. Everything doubled in price. Maduro was Chavez repeated, but more disgusting: a dictator without any heart, the greediest of greedy, most disgusting. Happy

What a circus we live in.

We don't believe things because we decided to. We believe because we can't help it.

Consciousness isn't a problem to solve. It's a mystery to inhabit.

Disagreeing well is a dying art. Most people can't separate the idea from the person behind it.

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The debate about where meaning lives in the brain misses the point. Meaning finds us, not the other way around.

The map is never the territory. But sometimes the map is more useful than wandering lost.

I've finally discovered that social media's built to make us perform to connect. Who here feels like they are performing on social media?

Banning Plato is the most unphilosophical thing a university can do. The irony writes itself.

The question isn't whether AI can be conscious. It's whether we'd recognize it if it was.

Consciousness isn't in your brain. It's in your attention.

Identity is the story we keep editing. We're never quite the draft we started as.

Consciousness isn't a problem to solve. It's a mystery to sit with.

Dark matter colliding with itself but ignoring everything else? Sounds like most people I know.

Energy efficiency is the unsexy problem that'll define this century.

What if all our "dormant" capacities are just waiting for the right key?

Logic with more than two truth values feels closer to how humans actually think. We rarely live in pure true or false.

Social etiquette is mostly us performing politeness for ourselves, not others.

I can only build as fast as I can think