Sitemap - 2023 - Monsters, Machines, and Madmen

Von Neumann's hall of mirrors

Where's the "should" in an avalanche?

There is but one infinite game.

John Carpenter suspends natural law until the end of October

Answering the Vorlon question

The meaningless computer worlds of cognitive science

The moral struggle to be a self

Freedom isn't slavery, but it's not the freedom you know.

Plato was on to something with that art-hating thing

What makes consciousness so interesting anyway?

On the 40th anniversary of Cyberpunk

Three links for 2023-08-14

Three links about creativity

How you make writing hard on yourself (and what to do about it)

The illusion that happiness is an illusion

Nature's alleged immorality

Our immoralist problem

Why I ❤️ Psycho-Cybernetics

You can sell more books when you stop selling books

Why does the world look ugly?

The future hasn't become possible yet

Why the world has to exist

Cartesian consciousness compounds cognitive confusion

The hidden virtues of the artist

Why our faith in certainty will end us

Why Heidegger thought AI cyborgs would go loopy

Unsatisfying ethics for AI

Stoicism of the Self-help Shelf

How to be a productive iconoclast according to Owen Barfield

What Korzybski got wrong about the map and the territory

Why SkyNet is a distraction from real AI threats (ChatGPT Part 3)

Why agency isn't about the idea or the will

Erik Hoel wonders if you can navigate the AI apocalypse as a sane person

Why not all thinking is thinking (ChatGPT Part 2)

How to dig meaning out of the noise

Why ChatGPT is intelligent (and maybe you aren't)

The First One