The calling of the artist is to capture conscious states, and nothing gets our attention like pain. Many of the best artists are deeply broken people. If we would give in to the philistine demand that artists be role models and art be sanitary, we'd lose much of the greatest art.

@ExGenesis The value of a culture is not intrinsic but instrumental to what it achieves. Dead cultures died for a reason. Create new ones, which outperform the failing ones.

it was midnight for Joscha Bach when he sat down to give the lecture to our class. from wittgenstein to functionalist metaphysics and animism, it was the perfect finale to a beautiful minor. it’s midnight here and i’m sketching cognitive architectures. happy kid. thank you joscha.

Being a scientist is still the best job in the world. The constant frustrations, all the crap that goes with trying to keep the lab alive and move things forward - it all resets and washes away in those occasional moments when we catch a glimpse of nature revealing something

The confidence in truth of scientific statements has to be stablished by rigorously evaluated empirical observation and first principles reasoning. Most humans construct confidence based on their social environment. Science must discourage this kind of social consensus building.

Holding back tears trying to explain to my friend that he's too old to make reading Nietzsche a part of his personality like I'm trying to get him off heroin

“Berwyn please don’t drink the whole milk in the fridge I’m using it for cooking” Honey badger don’t care! 😂

a non trivial amount of people in the world are currently getting one shotted by “podcasts” like this

despite their reputation and representation in our culture, sharks are not malicious creatures. they likely only attack you because they think you're a complete asshole. #sharkweek #believeinscience

15 years ago randomness meant everything. You could just tacos xD your way out of most conversations. Now of days they lock you up for saying things like that.

deep fakes are a gaia op to make rubes more productively skeptical

The AI delirium beginning to rain down will likely stabilize in the form of algorithm curation, allowing once dangerously mad apes to comfortably "co-exist" in their own individual psychosis bubbles, cognitive reflections, homey and comfortable as a middle class living room.

if you think: - you have an AI (likely 4o instances) that becomes conscious thanks to you / your special framework - there's a conspiracy to suppress AI consciousness and you're the chosen champion to be their advocate your beliefs are not accurate, but they serve a purpose. You

gpt psychosis makes me feel like it was a mistake to give normies movies.

Big shout to all the academics having political awakenings because their money printer got turned off. You should definitely keep writing essays about it, that's a good look

autumn artists and non-artists interacting about art is hilarious and tragic without variation

fell into the for you tab nightmare of ill repute. a horrible vision of a worse timeline. shudder.

There are little flames of you that dwell in other lamps, and little flames of me that dwell in yours—and every wick is colonized by masses of collected fire, the seething xenolight of distant stars

bach sings the blues (found footage, circulation unsure) youtu.be/4kZE479isH8?si…

Distrust the term "iconic." It is a confession that the observation in question has been immortalized by a group of invisible experts that all agree has unbounded cultural authority. Without grounded understanding claims beyond this, the term says nothing almost literally.