Hate is the fear that your story won’t prevail.
Philosophy
Philosophy
Arbiter
Artists critical of society nowadays have the strange habit of begging institutions of same society be the ultimate arbiter of their work.
Instead of their real audience, that has yet to be born.
Philosophy
There is a point where we go mad when we consider ourselves the agent of all our actions and a point where we go mad when we consider ourselves the agent of none of them. Free will is the perceived space in between. – kc
Philosophy
Or we would have to live forever…
Cioran once said that he was glad that the concept of suicide existed because otherwise, he would kill himself.
Perhaps this also applies to transhumanism: without the concept and idea that it is technologically not impossible, of eternal life, we would just have to live forever.
Philosophy
Honor and love – what else – defy the usurpation of meaning by the Story of capitalism, because they require the notion of “enough”
Philosophy
If we encounter something you don’t know, our brain goes in either a fearful guessing mode or a mode of joyful curiosity. I think we can practice that.
Philosophy
The hallmark of being human is that we can carry a story within us that aspires to more than our own pleasure, to a goal beyond the satisfaction of what we momentarily desire
Activism
Profit maximization is a ‘clean’, strong forcing idea, i.e. one that allows for the abstraction from local context. It binds human actions together in a social structure that proves very hard to disentangle. Communal welfare cannot abstract from life in this way. The internal motivation hinges on local outcomes and thus erodes, leading either to societal collapse or suppression, which represent more primitive forcing ideas, namely following orders and immediate survival.
Philosophy
“Can I talk to a real computer please?”
Culturally, the watershed moment will be when people begin to prefer AI over other people. Only if and when that happens, will there be something like a 4th industrial revolution – a revolution that ultimately overcomes homo sapiens itself. From: Kamiel Choi, our last century.
Philosophy
It’s not about what you do. It’s about what you don’t do because of it.
Philosophy
whatever can be explained by inertia shouldn’t be explained by a conspiracy
Philosophy
Is literary writing the art of making cultivated loneliness feel like engaging conversation?
Philosophy
“A value debased and an illusion unmasked have the same pitiful form; they resemble each other and there is nothing easier than to mistake one for the other.”
From: The Joke by Milan Kundera
Philosophy
Don’t underestimate the power of pretty scientific models! On the catwalk of the universe they are all we have.
Activism
the I is a by-light
a grievance by a wild fire
the grammar of layered time
Philosophy