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A mythology of progressing intelligence
Fables of progress infecting superintelligent AI thing that the "Singularity" people love
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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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Where's the "should" in an avalanche?
Robert Sapolsky argues against freedom and responsibility in this latest shameless attempt by The Science to convince you that you aren't real.
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There is but one infinite game.
So writes James Carse in Finite and Infinite Games, inspiring the bloom of a thousand biz-gurus.
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October 2023
John Carpenter suspends natural law until the end of October
How Carpenter's horror movies reveal the sublime wonders and terrors slithering through the entrails of notional reality
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PSA for any readers suffering from emotional incontinence
A reminder of my commenting policy & rules of engagement after banning my first unhinged comment-leaver
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Answering the Vorlon question
Deep insights on being human found in a mostly-forgotten gem of 1990s science fiction television.
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Time isn't space.
Movies, photography, TV, and all kinds of visual mass-media do crazy things to our grasp of time.
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The meaningless computer worlds of cognitive science
Jerome Bruner helped create cognitive science and there's a fascinating reason why he didn't care for the metaphor of the mind as a computer.
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September 2023
The moral struggle to be a self
Our most sacred modern myth is that we live "beyond good and evil" and selfishly choose all our values. That's also a value judgment, but nobody wants…
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Freedom isn't slavery, but it's not the freedom you know.
That's a fancy headline you got there Enos. Can you back it up?
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Poll: Tell me about your online reading habits
Help a brother out with some research & let me know how you get at your Substacks.
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