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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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How you make writing hard on yourself (and what to do about it)
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Put your hands in the air and step away from the online.
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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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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
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Our silent war with the androids
Are we stalked by inhuman machines living among us? A prescient science fiction author thought so.
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[POLL] Tell me which newsletter name you dislike the least
I’m renaming this newsletter for a less mouth-feely name. In the poll below I’ve listed three alliterative alternatives. My intention is to writ…
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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
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The State of the Newsletter 2024 edition
In which I lay out a modest agenda for the coming year.
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Put your hands in the air and step away from the online.
About this "Internet" thing everyone's talking about.
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