Philosophy

Spotify gave ChatGPT Sol its entire catalogue. Sol listened and came up with this playlist of “the best.” A couple things: 1) a measure of A...

I read a lot of history books. And I've noticed that many of the things that people will say on a day-to-day basis regarding the past and c...

In Zeno’s paradox, a tortoise beats Achilles, the fastest runner in Greece, in a race. The tortoise gets a head start in the race because h...

Eon CEO @michaelandregg argues human uploading could turn a world of a few "AI gods" into a massively multipolar one, with uploaded humans r...

Over the weekend, @finkd called me via his Meta glasses while fishing to discuss the 6k+ word, pro-AI manifesto he published this morning. ...

Western civilization has collapsed before. But a few scholars preserved the ideas that once made Rome great. They made a backup, and it did...

Here's my conversation with Anthony Kaldellis about the deep history of the Roman Empire in the west and the east (the Byzantine Empire). Th...

Just asked Opus 5 to /teach me about Buddhism I think I see what people mean about seamslop

A political philosopher would say that. As an economic sociologist who studies organizational design, clearly multi-agent alignment is an o...

A proposal from Tyler Cowen to the safety camp.

It's the opposite, actually. Ignoring something is how you find out of it matters. And since most things don't matter, ignoring it's a wonde...

You can’t have a body without skin, a house without walls, or a country without a border.

Here's my conversation with Gary Gallagher, a leading historian of the American Civil War. We discuss the causes of the war, the economics a...

i am also skeptical of the centralization of power hypothesis it comes from Lewis Mumford in 1964 who argued: "from late Neolithic times i...

I don't have to tell you what happened to these three boys. You already know. How awful is that?

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again." Thomas Paine wrote that in 1776, at the start of an age of constitutions and right...

> convince a new generation to get "AI-Native" > outsource thinking to AI > "no you have shallow thinking" > hire humanities instead > think...

We just published our internal 37signals Manager Playbook. https://basecamp.com/managers Inside we share what’s expected of managers, team...

A bowl is most useful when it is empty - Lao Tzu Same for your context window

.@lumpenspace on why the classic AI-doom story never made sense to him: "The whole doomer philosophy was predicated on this mathematical in...