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Saturday, November 18, 2023

The Singularity is Fear, Redux

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Oh dear! It would seem that I expressed some fear of AI in that last post. In fact what I fear is the nutty repetition that some sort of sin...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

The Flaw in Gregory Bateson's Otherwise Brilliant Ecology of Mind

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OK, so I don't mean that Bateson is flawed, but rather that his thinking and therefore his writing is flawed. The flaws are with cyberne...
Saturday, November 4, 2023

Sapir Whorf and Language Relativity

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When I was a kid, like before middle school, and already presuming I was going to be an engineer like my Grandaddy, I absolutely loved to re...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Rentier Finance Capitalism

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At the outset, I should say that I entirely lack the theoretical chops to enter this terrain. So, I will be making my observations from a la...
Friday, October 20, 2023

Joe Gould and Me

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Why me? There is a fascinating interplay among Joe Gould, his chronicler Joe Mitchell, and Jill Lepore, whose own read on history feels brig...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Suttree

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Suttree by Cormac McCarthy My rating: 5 of 5 stars This prefigures everything, I suppose. The Road. That the entirety of Western Civ lead...
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Yet Another Unpublished Goodreads Review of Nicholas Humphrey *Sentience: The Invention of Consciousness*

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Hey, I just read that the guy who invented the AR-15 was able to do so because he was unbound by the dogmas of the engineers. I tinker with ...