Author of poetry, essays, and fiction | Words scattered about, see link below | Armchair metaphysician | Battle of Evermore foot soldier | Dad
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If you want machines to have qualia, you’re going to have to kill them (i.e. give them a credible promise of eventual termination date that cannot be exactly known, circumvented, or bargained with). This is, of course, not very good for business.
Yeah this. You ever look at an internal diagram of a single neuron? And then scale to all the different cells in an entire body? To say nothing of variation between individuals. By degree, you might as well ask AI to “solve” the entire process of human societal interactions.
Gettin a lil momentum. My mutuals list thus far is almost entirely men (no hate), so would be cool if writers like @jrostopovich and @AnaKrivolapova made one
I made a Colophont! Same handle. Messed up and thought I’d be able to move around the order of Works after posting, but looks like they’re stuck in the order you upload. They’re basically reversed from what I’d prefer. Oh well! Shoutout to @AdamsOrArdor for the great site
AI is not the guy in the intermediary translation room with a Chinese Dictionary. It is the Chinese Dictionary.
I honestly think we could bring effective, nonviolent, public shaming back to popular culture if we just made it kinda funny. Not Bluesky comedian funny. Not “scarlet letter” funny. Like make it chill to put people in stocks in the town square and hurl rotten tomatoes at them etc
Writing (at least when shared publicly) is also magic[k] because it involves externalizing one’s thoughts in a way that’s intended to directly infiltrate and influence an audience, composed of individual minds. It is literally the attempted exercise of control.
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My Claude found a critical zero day vulnerability in the Code of Hammurabi, unnoticed by developers for 3,779 years.
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Reading is one of the best things you can do and costs like $20 for six hours, tops. In many cases it's free. The people who make it possible live in penury and the whole modern economy is organized against it.
Am workin on a piece. Start writing a sort of “preamble,” a warmup, a preparation of the palate. Oops all of a sudden it’s 2,000 words.
This is a subtweet about a certain litmag that recently published a review of mine. Idk what the deal is exactly or what specifically pissed people off so much, but I’ll just say the editors and the book and my review were Very Normal and not like…an Evola glaze or something lol
*government hummingbird dronestrikes u in ur home (a tent by the Wendy’s dumpster) 5 years from now for protesting data centers*
breathing is enough to give you away
each breath slightly changes how Wi-Fi waves reflect off your chest. with the right receiver and processing, those tiny changes can reveal your breathing rhythm
the graphs in this animation use real WiRe-Breath recordings: orange is the rhythm extracted from Wi-Fi, gray is a reference breathing sensor
i broke down how this works, and what else you can pull out of the radio waves around you, in the article below ↓
Finished my reread of Buber’s jaw-dropping little treatise. So much to say that condensing my thoughts on its application to our present situation will be a formidable task. I recommend the text to anyone with a capable mind and open heart.
“Seek and ye shall find. Knock and the door shall be opened for you.” In most of the developed world, there is no practical barrier to entry for reading other than 1) literacy and 2) desire. In the US, 1) is in dire straits in K-12-college. 2) has clearly been murdered by Phone.
Everyone blames screens for the decline of reading.
Nobody blames the consolidated corporate publishing industry that made books pricier, more generic, and harder to find. jacobin.com/2026/10/books-pu…
