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> Can we talk about something interesting now? No, we can't, because when we replace a part of ourselves, we become less interesting, less whole. We no longer are capable of those …

I find these answer options constraining. Most are on a single spectrum of good/bad for each question, ignoring alternatives like resignation, inevitability, indifference, and N/A.…

They explicitly state that they will use your data to train. Here's the important line from ChatGPT's Terms of Use: Our use of content. We may use Content to provide, maintain, dev…

No ethical position on the message itself is taken here. Brood parasitism is an ecological niche. The right could do this as well, if they can capture the levers to do so, and as a…

I mean that in the Lacanian sense. This is the symbolic Oedipal, not the Freudian familial romance. Reductively, transistion through the Lacanian Oedpial creates the linguistic sub…

I think the way the left's exterior reproduction's been successful is by leveraging the market more effectively. By that, I mean that global capital has already done a great job of…

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Pride was once pretty much universally considered a sin, usually because it results in things like arrogance, lack of humility, and a general disconnect from the reality of one's o…

Here's a potential solution: We accelerate capitalism (which AI is becoming synonymous with). The process described here will occur (it's probably inevitable anyway, as the essay's…

I've been explicitly asked to do this by management at a long-former employer who cited "improving" visible metrics. I just ignored it, but one member of the interview team quit in…

Israel has been at this for awhile. One problem with engaging an enemy is that you enter an interplay, a dialectic if you will, with them. As you shape them, so may they do the sam…

An acquaintance of mine offers training services to state LE and likes to make a point about that: We like to think that police are experts at firearms, but in actuality, a civilia…

All this is only true in the singular relation sense. The car has had a scattering effect. It's made the suburb possible. Most of our family members and past friends are scattered …

Maybe everyone shouldn't have a car anyway. Turn on the satellite layer in Google maps sometime, and you'll see how it's affected everything about how we organize society. Life for…

I agree, that's why they lasted as long as they did. It's a strategy that works, but only for awhile. They tried to use the apparatuses of global capital without fully integrating …

Setting aside any considerations on our side: for this war (or really any war), it's worth turning the chessboard around to look at things from your adversary's perspective as much…

You won't eat, because you won't be. Industrial economic systems (including capitalism, which is better at it, but also Soviet communism for another) will always reinvest some of i…

There is no free Google product. You pay for all of them with your data, your privacy, and your attention. Your data is worth far more to them than a $13/month subscription fee. In…

It seems crazy and impossible now, but imagine this notion: Software should serve the needs of the user. Software that does things the user doesn't want, like try to trick money ou…

AI is an attractor. In general, attractors absent barriers have the potential to act as a resource shredder in the context of an ecosystem where stability was predicated on said ba…