drink from different fountains
most stuff out there and online is junk and you know. also add another collection for reading and exploring concepts for longer than a single article or video
drink from different fountains
If a simplistic description of AI is computers learning to be more human, then the persistence of Hawk Tuah for six months and counting is the inverse: Humans learning how it feels to be a computer—forced to remember, unable to move on, endlessly consuming and regurgitating our past output in slightly different formats—a video here, a podcast... See more
Drew Austin • The Meme Fossil Record
values?
Well the purest way is the actually have and believe them yourself. Either through your life journey of experiences, or readings, or whatever. But if you want to actively pursue the discovery of alternative values, here is a non-exhaustive list of how to do so.
The antonym game. Taking the exercise I did of Apple previously, and defining the... See more
Well the purest way is the actually have and believe them yourself. Either through your life journey of experiences, or readings, or whatever. But if you want to actively pursue the discovery of alternative values, here is a non-exhaustive list of how to do so.
The antonym game. Taking the exercise I did of Apple previously, and defining the... See more
it creates the friction for those that weren't going to participate anyway, forming that thin line we refer to as a border. Without borders, we don't have distinction. Without distinction, we can't define alternative values. Exclusion has a function.
Midgley specifically challenged Descartes' famous thought experiment where he sits by his fireplace and questions everything he can possibly doubt, including the existence of other people. Descartes concludes that the only thing he can know with absolute certainty is that he is thinking (and therefore exists) - the famous "Cogito, ergo sum."
Midgley... See more
Midgley... See more
Claude
Magazines were containers for someone else’s taste, and when you read them you were inhabiting that taste.
The thing about explosions, is that the force IS flattening.
People talk about cultural explosions like it's some diverse thing. NO! WRONG! It's a flattening thing. So much gets produced at once, it completely flattens everything.
People talk about cultural explosions like it's some diverse thing. NO! WRONG! It's a flattening thing. So much gets produced at once, it completely flattens everything.
The Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is ‘brain rot’ which they defined as: “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such
... See more