AI | DYSTOPIA
"Is the AI Arms Race Killing the Planet?"
Video Podcast with Naomi Klein | Companion piece by AI Now Institute
AI | DYSTOPIA
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Ontology
Are games metaphors for life?
Is it possible that many of the games we love owe their popularity to being metaphors for life?
Linguistics | Communication
Language as Song
Is the categorical distinction between language and music empirically defensible? Or is the "difference" a stipulation of definitional convenience?
Acting and talking straight has a price — evasion is the deferred price, with interest.
The Price of Evasion
Essays & Perspectives
Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight
The claim is roughly: There is a parallel world, coexisting with "our own", hidden from biological vision yet accessible to other senses.
We have 3 dominant needs — simply put.
Achievement, Power, Affiliation
Should I question everything I've ever been told?
Solipsism draws a hard "reality-boundary" between what we experience ourselves and what others tell us.
Dispatches & Archive
A Brief Introduction to Ontology
What is the nature of being?
A Brief Introduction to Epistemology
"What is knowledge — and how do we know what we think we know?"
Personal notebook
Call it "newsletter" if you like.
A Brief Introduction to Anthropology
Anthropology asks what it means to be human— ontologically, biologically, culturally, historically, linguistically, and epistemically.
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A quick take, filed under a short deck.