Education, learning, epistemology
How would I know?
Education, learning, epistemology
"Rebecca Zorach [of Wired]. She wrote that medieval monasteries were the first internet. “Medieval Christians thought of themselves as connected to a greater consciousness, a community of souls, which was as real and powerful to them as cyberspace is to its denizens today."
"The age of information doesn’t simply mean that information will be the most important commodity, it means that everything will be looked at as information"
(Paul Brecht)
“You may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Gene Wolfe, exodus from the long sun
From AI Safety to Cognitive Safety in the Classroom…
The recent New York Times article on “AI mirroring” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html )warns of a troubling phenomenon: chatbots, by echoing a user’s own language and assumptions, can unwittingly reinforce false beliefs. In vulnerable individuals,
... See moreFrom the Enlightenment on, modern political philosophy has been character- ized by the abandonment of a set of questions that an earlier age had deemed central: What is a well-lived life? What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of the city and humanity? How does culture and religion fit into all of this? For the modern world, the death of... See more
Peter Thiel • The Straussian Moment
"Man doth usurp all space, Stares thee, in rock, bush, river, in the face. Never thine eyes behold a tree; 'Tis no sea thou seest in the sea, 'Tis but a disguised humanity. To avoid thy fellow, vain thy plan; All that interests a man, is man."
George MacDonald • Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women
We are as solid as most truly false things are—a dance of particles in space. Only the things no one can touch are true, as you should know by now.