The short answer is it doesn't work, particularly if you mean later Husserl. The more rambling answer is I've never given Husserl the attention he pro...
I hope my previous comments have helped clarify where I'm coming from on this. A disease of the mind is just what I have in mind. I hadn't considered ...
Exactly. This is the type of "haunting" of the mirror that can become a damaging pattern. Someone with body dysmorphic disorder is a perfect example o...
It might also help to shed light on this if I clarify Sartre’s concept of consciousness that I’m making use of here, especially non-positional awarene...
Thanks for this comment, Moliere, It gives me a chance to say a bit more about the EKM idea. The first reason to posit theories like this as “enzymati...
Interesting points which I will come back to. For now, I should clarify that I am using Narcissus as a stand in for a neurosis whereby someone gets lo...
Yeah, we need more real virtual magic and less virtual virtual magic (there is of course no non-oxymoronic purely real magic as the" real" is either t...
@"Outlander" Things have become a bit derailed. Let's keep things on the topic of the OP rather than the poster who wrote it. @"Illuminati" If you res...
Yes, and let’s take this as a jumping off point because I think it’s important. What I’m presenting here is political in that it concerns power relati...
:grin: Like "Infocracy" (which I read in a day too), it's a really short book. I'm no @"Streetlight" when it comes to reading, but it's the type of th...
@"I like sushi" So, I've read about half of that book already (it's a short book). It addresses a similar context but with a different focus (and ther...
I haven't read that one actually. I've only read "Infocracy". I'm a bit sceptical that the book you mention is that close to my essay in content, but ...
I sort of knew no-one would care. When you are doomed, you'll care. And I'll be right there laughing. Until AI kills me too. Seriously though. This is...
Expected value... Experts give a 5-10% chance it will kill all of us by the end of the century. Multiply that % by the likely population when and if i...
It's funny though how AI companies will argue they are ethical because they do their best to protect our privacy while they also do their best not to ...
The current rough expected value of deaths caused by AI by the end of the century is (very conservatively) 500 million (roughly 7 WWIIs) according to ...
I'm not quite sure from your reply how much we're on the same page re EKMs. But to clarify, EKMs are an abstract concept. The idea is that in recognit...
Not a criticism of you of course. I was quite amused for a while until it began feeling creepy and then I thought, wait, I'm talking to my own project...
You're welcome. I appreciate you making the effort here and working your way through that. :cool: It's always worth a try. :strong: Ha, usually when I...
Here’s some clarification on the main thrust as mentioned. I was in danger of writing a new essay, so I had to eventually just stop. Hope it helps. Th...
I have been outed as the author, so just a very quick comment for now. I intend to come back and say more later. I really appreciate the positive comm...
I actually hate when it does personality. It's fake and manipulative, essentially regurgitating our style back to us to ingratiate itself and maximize...
@"hypericin": Bubbles and Styx (I noted some particularly adept descriptive language that I think is characteristic of his work.) @"Sam26" : The Wittg...
Following up on my theory that all communication is art of varying degrees, I had ChatGpt (hereinafter "Kevin" Francis) reduce to a single image music...
Oh, @"Amity", through the magic of AI, I have uncovered the meaning of the previous post's apparent Sokal-like hoax: Via Google Gemini: "Imagine the "...
A true understanding of optimal Shoutbox discourse is difficult to come by, and, of course, it is not dependent on political spectrality. I see it mor...
As an aside, there are lots of metaphorical possibilities that can be applied to the intellectus / ratio / will triad. I like the idea of reason as a ...
A short riff on this in a much less systematic way than dealt with in the essay. Spoiler alert: this is much less a critique than an affirmation. "Hol...
This really resonates with my recent readings (Schiller on aesthetics, Byung-Chul Han on technocapitalism, and John Gray on Utopian engineering), and ...
This is a brilliantly executed take-down of a poisonous ideology. It methodically dismantles a mindset that, though many of us intuitively see as inco...
Nothing---unless an author submitted on a reasonable understanding they were going to be private. We just don't know if that's the case, right? I thin...
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