July 2011
Reality as failed state - tl;dr version (I like...
steelweaver:
So maybe what we have today are not problems, but meta-problems.
It is very useful to confirm our understanding with others, to meet with fellow humans – preferably face-to-face – strength flows from this.
However, disquiet remains - no pre-catastrophic change of course seems in any way likely. What we might call ‘Fabian’ environmentalism has failed.
Occasionally a scientist...
“Neither indifferent as to which of how many possibilities may best explain, nor...”
– http://mindhacks.com/2011/07/23/writing-on-cocaine-literally/
The Chinese-Room Fallacy →
I haven’t been posting much lately because of work, but I came upon this paragraph and had to mention it:
This raises the question of whether Watson is really answering questions at all or is just…
http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/robert_anton... →
RAW: Of course, my position is based on the denial that money does store wealth. I think it’s a semantic hallucination, the verbal equivalent of an optical illusion, to speak at all of money containing or storing wealth. Such thinking should have gone out with phlogiston theory. The symbol is not the referent; the map is not the territory. Money symbolizes wealth, as words symbolize things,...
http://hilobrow.com/2011/07/13/the-black-iron-priso... →
07.13.2011 The Black Iron Prison By: Joshua Glenn | Categories: Read-outs
This essay of mine was published in the first issue of n+1 (July 2004). It was conceived of as a review of four books published around that time: Richard Wolin’s The Seduction of Unreason, the Library of America’s new translation of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, a new edition of Hannah Arendt’s The Origins...
WatchThis show was such a bad influence on me in High School. Relationships between pairs of extremely insecure people don’t actually tend to be nearly as wacky-fun as the Kare Kano anime implies.
(From what I understand, the manga gets *much* darker and deeper into the psychological trauma aspect that was the driving force throughout the character development arc in the second quarter of the...
Have you ever met a rational person?
http://www.modernmythology.net/2011/06/welcome-to-f... →
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Welcome to the Future!
By Dr. Adventure! As you all know, we are now living in the Future. Jet-packs, Aliens, gun-toting robots, giant remote-controlled insects, global disasters, World War III, open insurrection, Skynet, digital drugs and Super-Heroes. The Future. Feels like Ive been here all along but its nice seeing the rest of the planet start to catch up. The...
http://www.modernmythology.net/2011/06/lord-shiva-k... →
Tuesday, June 07, 2011
Lord Shiva, King of Ghosts
by David Metcalfe “This particular time is most inauspicious; at this time the horrible ghosts and constant companions of the lord of the ghosts are visible. Lord Shiva, king of ghosts, sitting on the back of his bull carrier, travels, accompanied by ghosts who follow him for their welfare.”
- Bhagavata Purana The media is...
http://www.modernmythology.net/2011/05/toasters-bla... →
Toasters, Bladerunner and Schizophrenia: PKD & Gnostic Agnosticism
By Mr. VI Do you know who you are, and can you honestly say your awareness encompasses the whole of the biomechanical system which is you-as an organism? May you be aware of the functioning of each organ; the pulsing of the heart, the filtering of the liver and kidneys, or the electrical crackle in your own brain? Do...
Project xanadu document dump →
This has only the vaguest relationship to the content of this blog, but I’m posting it here because it’s the place I’m most likely to look later. A little context: I am a huge fan of Project Xanadu,…
