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THEN Almitra spoke again and said, And what of Marriage, master? And he answered saying: You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore

And yet, as is often the case, those of us who need love so badly at a particular moment can be off-putting to those who want to love us, and to those

Two loves hold reality and make our universe unique to the rest: tetrahedron → “hollywood love” hypertetrahedron/pentachoron/5-cell → “real love“ —88

ARKit persists anchors and mapping data based on your location. Practically speaking, this means that if you use an app to anchor some paintings to yo

Poetry is the art of proving that a few words are worth more than a thousand pictures.

The shift described represents a fundamental change in the "architecture" of how creative value is captured, moving from individual products to entire

Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra that “Man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können” – “One must still have

Claude’s outputs are the product of a form of mimicry, rather than as a report of genuine internal states.Consciousness is about internal states; the

I say please and thank you, not because I believe it matters to him, but because it matters to me. If I am going to use natural English to communicate

“Where there is selection there is art.” —BH Liddell Hart.

There’s a lot of young man’s anger in that show that’s kind of disguised as absurdity or silliness,” he says. “I don’t always want to do that. Or if I

“He does such a great job at playing the truly mediocre,” adds Jordan Peele, who cast Heidecker as Josh Tyler (and his tethered, Tex) in his 2019 movi

Hellman & Friedman's majority stake in Global Music Rights marks a watershed moment — private equity firms now control three major PROs (alo

Gen AI  for music has captured ~$300M in funding so far this year across several high-profile deals, the majority of which either focus on  rights man

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Spirituality is experiencing who you are beyond small mental definitions, rituals, relationships. For this reason it renders traditional religion impo

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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One cannot understand the Iran War without understanding the Kahanists. But I rarely see analysts mention them. Maybe they did, and it was behind a pa

Trump seemed unmoved by his divine destiny: the messiah, after all, is an unpaid position. More mysterious is why Parnas — a transnational criminal un

What do they say? Nothing at all. Life goes on. In the morning, adults hurry to work; children go to school; grandmothers go stand in lines. More and

But the question remains: Why was the Palace of the Soviets to be erected precisely where the Temple of Christ the Saviour had stood? (Let us add that

The man we call an adventurer...is one who remains indifferent to the content, that is, to the human meaning of his action, who thinks he can assert h

Architecture without philosophy would become engineering. Architecture without aesthetics is engineering.

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Neuroarchitecture and Landscaping: Healing Spaces and the Potential of Sensory Gardens

Ever tried uncollapsing a wavefunction?

Could We Ever Really Build a Dyson Sphere? This megastructure for gathering solar energy would fill any conceivable future energy desires. But can it

people need many points of contact with the natural world to be happy and AC loses a few of them which might be OK but all the others have been lost

I think people would be better off if they learned to use the whole earth. All five senses. the world is a very sensual place you know. People joke by

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Effective Altruism Is Pushing a Dangerous Brand of ‘AI Safety’

I’m equally responsible to the people who pay me to design and the people who have to live with my designs

My Techno-Optimism

We should be skeptical of both utopian and dystopian technology predictions. New tools will amplify both our virtues and our vices, just like every pr

“Worry can become like a bad habit of the mind. The rule of neuroplasticity—that our brain keeps changing based on our repeated activity—says that wha

many of the quant-ities related to suffering are based on perceptions and similar uncertain infer-ences. The uncertainty will necessarily increase fru

Scientists have demonstrated that, as the years go by, much of what we think we remember is false. It seems our brains can't store every detail we exp

“You are not alone across time.”

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doom won't save us: we can't build a better world on nihilism. spite alone can get you far, but it will never make you happy.

It is predictable, then, that users are consistently fooled into believing that their AI companions are conscious persons, capable of feeling real emo

Interestingly, many users who emotionally mourned the ‘loss’ of GPT-4o expressed complete awareness of its lack of consciousness. And yet, in many cas

One might point out that movie characters or videogame NPCs give off a similarly deceiving impression of being conscious, and yet it would surely be e

people turn to AI with existential questions and complex, unresolved scientific problems because they think that the mystical processes in AI systems

Sisyphus is grateful for all his relationships, that they took place when they did and ended when they did.

An enlightened being sees their agony without diminishing its reality. In other words, it doesn’t just turn away from it—but, on the other hand, simul

Our minds often wander into darker thoughts like a curious but cautious cat exploring a dimly lit room. It takes great willpower and a blend of wisdom

I learned more about why women living in the same space have menstrual synchronization: it speaks to our physiology; humans give off particles, absorb

Technologists are obsessed with reaching god (lower case g) AS technologyInstead reaching God (upper case G) THROUGH technology

The problem with AI tools today is that they don’t take your judgment into account

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But the bigger loss of human agency comes from the billions of people that use these apps. These deep learning AIs are designed to maximize the time w