In reading Kuhn's momentous "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" last night I learned that ahistoricism of scientists is actually something old within the tradition, not something that has happened with Big Science, the institutionalization of science as a weapon of the state

maybe, just maybe, by studying those who made mistakes you literally can't even dream of, you can be lucky to make those types of mistakes

the types of mistakes Aristotle or Einstein or Steve Jobs made

If you are curious about what Richard Sutton things about the future of LLMs (he is bearish) I had Claude create a quiz to learn all the details:

claude.ai/public/artif...

"Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine."
~ Carl G. Jung

September (1956)
🎨 René Magritte

I love skepticism but there is faith and there is belief (the latter being mutable)

When doubting the existential truth of our own existence, that doubter doesn't doubt themselves (therefor proving their existence)

It seems so bizarre to consider that God/Higher Power is somehow outside of us and inside of us, that inside part has bedeviled humans for so long, we are programmed deeply to consider everything as outside us (by nature as well), I blame Descartes

The reason we have the codex felt shame over not being able to read (this is a guess)

my relationship has devolved into me asking it to ask questions, then replying to its questions with more questions, on and on and on

If it actually made for good listening this would also be my approach to podcasting but people like answers for some reason

Wow is the US behind the OECD Global Tax Agreement, implementing a 15% minimum corporate tax rate for multinational companies?

Seems like they are trying to plug the hole that exists for corporations

If AI can do everything bureaucrats can do better with no infighting and secrecy as a form of institutional battle do to large organization competition for limited spots, then bureaucracies have no moat anymore outside of the government's monopoly on violence

Companies like to make metadata sound innocuous, but it matters more than you might think. Here’s why. ssd.eff.org/module/why-...

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