Author of poetry, essays, and fiction | Words scattered about, see link below | Armchair metaphysician | Battle of Evermore foot soldier | Dad
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If you want machines to have qualia, you’re going to have to kill them (i.e. give them a credible promise of eventual termination date that cannot be exactly known, circumvented, or bargained with). This is, of course, not very good for business.
AI is not the guy in the intermediary translation room with a Chinese Dictionary. It is the Chinese Dictionary.
This is just as ridiculous as claiming that everyone can be a Great Artist if they just work hard and long enough. Talent is real, and it doesn’t work that way. Some people got The Juice, and if it’s not abundantly clear early on that that’s you, do something else with your time.
I honestly think we could bring effective, nonviolent, public shaming back to popular culture if we just made it kinda funny. Not Bluesky comedian funny. Not “scarlet letter” funny. Like make it chill to put people in stocks in the town square and hurl rotten tomatoes at them etc
Writing (at least when shared publicly) is also magic[k] because it involves externalizing one’s thoughts in a way that’s intended to directly infiltrate and influence an audience, composed of individual minds. It is literally the attempted exercise of control.
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My Claude found a critical zero day vulnerability in the Code of Hammurabi, unnoticed by developers for 3,779 years.
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Reading is one of the best things you can do and costs like $20 for six hours, tops. In many cases it's free. The people who make it possible live in penury and the whole modern economy is organized against it.
Am workin on a piece. Start writing a sort of “preamble,” a warmup, a preparation of the palate. Oops all of a sudden it’s 2,000 words.
This is a subtweet about a certain litmag that recently published a review of mine. Idk what the deal is exactly or what specifically pissed people off so much, but I’ll just say the editors and the book and my review were Very Normal and not like…an Evola glaze or something lol
*government hummingbird dronestrikes u in ur home (a tent by the Wendy’s dumpster) 5 years from now for protesting data centers*
breathing is enough to give you away
each breath slightly changes how Wi-Fi waves reflect off your chest. with the right receiver and processing, those tiny changes can reveal your breathing rhythm
the graphs in this animation use real WiRe-Breath recordings: orange is the rhythm extracted from Wi-Fi, gray is a reference breathing sensor
i broke down how this works, and what else you can pull out of the radio waves around you, in the article below ↓
Finished my reread of Buber’s jaw-dropping little treatise. So much to say that condensing my thoughts on its application to our present situation will be a formidable task. I recommend the text to anyone with a capable mind and open heart.
“Seek and ye shall find. Knock and the door shall be opened for you.” In most of the developed world, there is no practical barrier to entry for reading other than 1) literacy and 2) desire. In the US, 1) is in dire straits in K-12-college. 2) has clearly been murdered by Phone.
Everyone blames screens for the decline of reading.
Nobody blames the consolidated corporate publishing industry that made books pricier, more generic, and harder to find. jacobin.com/2026/10/books-pu…
Rowan University has a 78% acceptance rate and costs ~$40,000/year in-state. Out of their 24k+ students, many likely took out significant loans, of which (according to this anecdote), they were not even capable of evaluating the long term $ implications. This is evil.
I made an unsettling discovery in my undergraduate class on financial planning last week. While explaining mortgages, I asked my 38 students this question: if you buy a $400,000 house and pay 20% in cash towards the purchase, what will be the amount that you finance?
Not a single student could tell me the answer. Despite the fact that they are all juniors and seniors majoring in business.
I added more questions: what is 30 percent of 80? 60 percent of 90? They didn’t know. The closest they got was when one student said, in response to my query of “40% of 70”, that “I know it’s 4 times 7 but I don’t remember what that is.” Another student helpfully added, “28.”
They explained to me why they couldn’t answer these math questions: they were never taught multiplication tables, percentages or fractions during their K-12 schooling. Instead, they were taught how to use a calculator. Without one, they are not able to do basic arithmetic.
I later asked the dean about this, and he lamented that this isn’t a thing just for our university’s students; it’s a thing for their entire generation, nationwide.
When I was in K-12, the fierce debate among parents and educators was whether to allow calculators in class. The calculators won.
Today, the debate is about AI. And like before, the tech will win. But will that truly be a victory?
Rowan University #college #math #loans #CFP #financialplanning
Daughter is at transitional language stage in which she transposes specific categorization onto any generally comparable shape. Everything circular is “ball.” Tennis ball? Ball. Volleyball? Ball. Image of sun or moon? Ball. Orange? Ball. Vaguely spherical pumpkin? Ball.
I am going to go OFF in a lengthy CNF essay that’s partially about this dynamic, with connection to Buber’s I and Thou. Alas, only my 3 or 4 loyal audience members will read it, but that is enough.