The core feature of Wokeism is really the narcissism of “the self without limit,” made possible by complete faith in Progress, the malleability of both Nature and Man, and ultimately man’s ability to fully control, organize, and manage reality as if he were a god (thus producing equity and social justice, i.e. heaven on earth). In other words it... See more

“intelligence” appears to be a latent property of data, which can be transformed into an explicit property, rather than an attribute of a processing technology.

A Camera, Not an Engine: Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality Venkatesh Rao 12.9.2023

Seems we could all do with a bit more humility and a lot less utility in our thinking.

Psychedelic Fascism Jamie Wheal 7.13.2023

as we begin to react in depth to the challenges of the global village, we all become reactionaries.

America’s New Post-Literate Epistemology Michael Cuenco 4.17.2021

Centralization doesn’t drive down costs, so much as it externalizes the problems off the balance sheet. It zeroes out our obligations to others.

How egg politics failed Britain Mary Harrington 5.9.2023

his father gave him a life lesson. There are three kinds of people in this world, his father said: sheep, wolves and sheepdogs. Wolves prey on the flock. Sheepdogs defend the flock.

How MAGA Corrupts the Culture of the White Working Class David French 10.5.2023

When the storyteller speaks, they pull their words from somewhere beyond themselves; from the traditions and history of the group, and of the land. Let me take you away from here, to somewhere more real. Let me help you remember the stories that connect us, that help us remember who and what we are, and what we owe to this place. ... It is a... See more

John Vervaeke: Neoplatonic grammar of cognition: “emergence up, emanation down, and interpenetrating so that the self is fundamentally dialogical, vertically and horizontally.”

the losers, in fact, in the real economy that enables the Burning Man fantasy one — inhabit that scarcity all the time, [and] ... the risk of genuine material suffering or interpersonal violence that so often accompanies real scarcity.

Burning Man is a capitalist lie Mary Harrington 9.6.2023