We have all been there. You are in a comment section or a group chat. Someone says something that isn’t just wrong—it’s fundamentally confused. Maybe they think an AI chatbot is a conscious person because it said "I'm sad." Maybe they think they understand war because they play Call of Duty. Maybe they think running … Continue reading Why You Can’t Win That Internet Argument (And Shouldn’t Try)
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Imagined Realities, Evidence & The Singular
"An 'imagined reality' is an addictive mental drug that humans are infatuated with. It cures the frustration brought about by the constraints of the actual reality. Like a physical drug, it could cure pain and make life in prison more tolerable, but it could also take away life if used excessively. It brings communities with … Continue reading Imagined Realities, Evidence & The Singular
Cargo Cult X
"Good listeners do often reflect words back—but not because they read it in a book somewhere. Rather, it’s cargo cult advice: it teaches you to imitate the surface appearance of good listening, but misses what’s actually important, the thing that’s generating that surface appearance. The generator is curiosity. When I’ve listened the most effectively to people, it’s because I was … Continue reading Cargo Cult X
The Dreamer & The Judge
The dreamer is in no position to judge what is real or who is awake. The first task of the dreamer is to awaken and of the judge is to make sure the evidence is admissible. Everything else is a kangaroo court of suffering.
Don’t Mistake Theater for Your Reality
I, too, have been called names. I have found myself sharing the living and thinking space of people with Cluster B personality disorders. I have seen them conjure worlds, hammer manacles, and shape the world with their words and beliefs. And while their tutelage was hard, I learned a great lesson, which I will share: … Continue reading Don’t Mistake Theater for Your Reality
There’s More in the Mortar Than the Pestle
Mazeways, reality range and glowing red rat cunning, invention of engines, fuels, tanks full of the stored fat of bloodshed, machine-shaped, faceted 3D printed jewels. Factories of fascism, launching rockets on the ecliptic, living within the lie, full manifests of memes and dockets, launch determines orbit, STANDBY. Red glare, the bombs bursting in air 48 … Continue reading There’s More in the Mortar Than the Pestle
Information Realism
"...the universe is a mental construct displayed on the screen of perception." —Bernardo Kastrup, "Physics Is Pointing Inexorably to Mind." Scientific American. March 25, 2019. Said better by Spoon Boy, in The Matrix: "Do not try and bend the spoon, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth...there is no spoon. Then you'll see … Continue reading Information Realism
Thinking Itself Is Dangerous – Los Angeles Review of Books
"Just as terror, even in its pre-total, merely tyrannical form ruins all relationships between men, so the self-compulsion of ideological thinking ruins all relationships with reality. The preparation has succeeded when people have lost contact with their fellow men as well as the reality around them, for together with these contacts, men lose the capacity … Continue reading Thinking Itself Is Dangerous – Los Angeles Review of Books
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