Someone on Twitter asked ChatGPT: "In two hundred years, what will historians say we got wrong?" ChatGPT gave a smooth answer about climate denial, short-term thinking, and eroding trust in institutions. It sounded smart. But it was actually revealing something else entirely—what worries people right now, dressed up as future wisdom. Here's the thing: We … Continue reading What Will History Say About Us? (Wrong Question)
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Gakjil (Persona)
Time, Being & Identity
Suppose you wanted to claim that you are someone who does some activity, such as a writer, a programmer, a teacher, a runner, an artist, a boxer, or whatever. How much time is required and on what time scale? Let's assume weekly blocks of time. A week has a 168 hours. Suppose we sleep for … Continue reading Time, Being & Identity
The Self: Presented, Perceived & Real
Read, "Didi" by Amber Caron reprinted on the Electric Literature website as "A Teenage Girl is a Funhouse Mirror," and I liked it quite a bit. I thought I'd reference it here because I can imagine referring to it again in the future. The key takeaway that I took from it is that it is … Continue reading The Self: Presented, Perceived & Real
Thinking in Ethnicities & Nationalities
I was talking with someone about someone else, and they asked, "Are they South Korean?" I found the question interesting because I don't tend to think about Koreans as South Korean or North Korean. I just think of them as Koreans. i found myself wondering. Well, how do I think of ethnically Chinese Filipinos? Wikipedia … Continue reading Thinking in Ethnicities & Nationalities
Simulated Selves
"This Mum and Dad live inside an app on my phone, as voice assistants constructed by the California-based company HereAfter AI and powered by more than four hours of conversations they each had with an interviewer about their lives and memories. (For the record, Mum isn’t that untidy.) The company’s goal is to let the living communicate with … Continue reading Simulated Selves
Temporary Version
Theater, Circus & Being
"In Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self, Tzachi Zamir proposes a theory of persons that allows participants in the theater to amplify and improve their own sense of self. According to Zamir, “a person is a cluster of possibilities, and actualizes a small portion of these.” The personal benefit of acting is that it broadens … Continue reading Theater, Circus & Being
Identity: Obscurity, Anonymity & Fuckwadary
The history of The Residents is shrouded in obscurity and aptly covered elsewhere (we recommend Ian Shirley’s definitive text and Don Hardy’s Theory of Obscurity as starting points). We should also point out that there will be no discussion here speculating on the band’s identities. Who they may be is irrelevant to the sweeping vision … Continue reading Identity: Obscurity, Anonymity & Fuckwadary
Privacy is For Finding Out Who We Are When We Are Not Performing Ourselves
"Privacy is essential to human agency and dignity. Denying someone privacy—even when it’s as seemingly small as a parent who won’t let their kid close the door—has a corrosive effect, eroding trust as well as our sense of interiority. When we scale up the individual to a body politic, it is the private sphere that’s … Continue reading Privacy is For Finding Out Who We Are When We Are Not Performing Ourselves
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