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Why Vico said that history was more true than physics
A brief note about Giambattista Vico's theory of knowledge and science based on a key insight from his Scienza Nuova (New Science)
Wittgenstein calls out crooked mental-health charlatans
While the reply-guys whine that "philosophy isn't practical", bad philosophy twists everything we know about the mind and mental health.
Can anyone be desireless?
Wanting to eliminate all wanting seems incoherent if you take it at face value. But there's more going on.
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Is there a pimp controlling your mind?
Hear me out.
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Brains don't build pictures of the world (and you don't know the world through a mental picture)
These internet comments that assume "brains build pictures of reality" are teaching me that Kant, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein don't get nearly enough…
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What Korzybski got wrong about the map and the territory
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Brains don't build pictures of the world (and you don't know the world through a mental picture)
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Put your hands in the air and step away from the online.
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How you make writing hard on yourself (and what to do about it)
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Philosophy is dead and useless and you're doing it anyway
Love it, hate it, think it's mind poison—philosophy's got you no matter what.
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Elon's brain chip implant is rolling out and the consequences will blow your mind
Here's a concrete example of what I mean when I say people become more like machines as the machines become more life-like
Our silent war with the androids
Are we stalked by inhuman machines living among us? A prescient science fiction author thought so.
The generative AI apocalypse turned out different
Instead of HK tanks and T-800 exoskeletons marching across a sea of human skulls, we got static drowning all meaning an infinite white noise
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To see clearly with universal indifference
What really happens when you overcome the selfish ego
The State of the Newsletter 2024 edition
In which I lay out a modest agenda for the coming year.
Put your hands in the air and step away from the online.
About this "Internet" thing everyone's talking about.
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A mythology of progressing intelligence
Fables of progress infecting superintelligent AI thing that the "Singularity" people love
Von Neumann's hall of mirrors
Much science done today studies nature by studying artificial models, but do you know how to tell them apart?
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