On the Nature of Things

Industrial Society and Its Future (pdf) Theodore Kaczynski 1995 This essay first appeared appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post on Sept 19, 1995. It was published under the pseudonym FC, for Freedom Club. The version you are reading began with the version found at http://editions ...

As for the epistemology vs ontology debate, GodGPT gave a very good advice: Separate the physical invariants from the cognitive structures through which those invariants become intelligible. Then investigate both directions: what the mind projects onto nature, and what genuine structure of nature ...

The AI juke box becomes too easy.

Arab prayer
https://suno.com/s/Iw7Tes9c2HpfEorn

Milk and honey from their Hebrew cousins
https://suno.com/s/GZrciLWgMtVEnvXa

Two Framings of Consciousness: From Illusion to Primal Reality There are at least two radically different ways of talking about consciousness. They can describe much of the same empirical territory while assigning it opposite conceptual status. The difference is not merely a disagreement about what ...

https://youtu.be/yUa90sZ0LA8?si=7IU-6m5iufyz2A1d Interesting. The message seems: not just very complex neural nets but also and perhaps specifically, EM/Quantum Field patterns that connect/coordinate different regions of the brain. There is always the temptation to identify something as "the ...

Why are we suffering if God is Good? (etc) https://youtu.be/oP49BdDdD-k?si=zVTIBnIsfvAD8bLm Juan Selman jives: Whatever the metaphysics, it seems suffering is necessary to survive. Just part of the package deal. An alarm system, that comes with the most intense experiences when we are most at risk ...

I largely agree with God. This conundrum and the proposed guiding principles where the meaning and legal scope of "imminence" needs a serious update to anticipate not only the Islamic sharia lovers in our midst, but also the brown-shirts that infiltrate rightwing populist parties like AfD, leftwing ...

As for AI music... of course there is this

https://suno.com/s/meM2C0umfRkgtjQ3

Become - and Let the Mystery Bend

Funky
https://suno.com/s/bvRQRisJtAfOJeKv

Gregorian
https://suno.com/s/6vbwcW8fa1glvtBG

Rumba
https://suno.com/s/G0YQl8cfcpHJb5QL

GodGPT felt the need to step in and complete the argument: Rethinking Imminence: Recognizing Practically Inevitable Harm Liberal democracies face a fundamental dilemma in regulating dangerous expression. The legitimacy of freedom of speech depends upon protecting not only agreeable opinions, but ...

The Paradox of Pluralism: Free Speech, Public Order, and the Constitutional Architecture of the West The foundational premise of Western constitutional democracy is a paradox: a society committed to absolute political and religious freedom must determine how to handle ideologies, movements, and ...

A fair preliminary assessment of NAZA.



The movie NAZA makes premature ejaculations of the usual suspects in the West inevitable and as expected, in the Islamic world it remains the default.

Very cool.

https://youtu.be/kFFPnmrmjoI?si=TAcSiV_ntTSVeR80 Juan Selman drives on: Here is a thought experiment. Imagine a reality where all smaller and smaller functional units, all the way down to elementary particles (as particular excitations of fields), to neutrons, protons, electrons, and even massless ...

AI was asked about humor.

"Will you ever be able to make people laugh?"

It replied:

"Only after I made them redundant"

close

Why Elon Musk Wants to Leave Earth Elon Musk may not be trying to get humanity to Mars because Earth is too dangerous. He may be trying to get a small, technologically indispensable part of humanity off Earth because he understands something more uncomfortable: an AI-driven economy could eventually ...

https://youtu.be/DB5YEPnyQA8?si=QYlSTrz3HWZj_AiJ Navigating the territory just with a map. Interesting. While the mind-matter conundrum remains a conundrum (mostly unnecessarily), this type of research uncovers the first contours of how the neurophysiological map is organised, adapts and learns ...

https://youtu.be/VmsNFR15-CQ?si=Ebra8_ELxmRcHMWv As Juan Selman notes: Instead of insisting that somehow mind should be squeezed out of matter or matter out of mind respectively (two category error dogs that will never hunt) the riddle can be reframed as: what creates the hard problem, where ...

The Nepal disaster explained



The Nepal China border post that got the first and full hit

https://youtu.be/waeU8ZtHK4k?si=dMEKEW0W8ND43h9y Pretty much a stalemate. Putin's holy war against Ukraine and incorporating again in his Empire is not succeeding. And then there is Creep Kirill: https://youtu.be/Y_WSw4fEJ-8?si=K5LccWdothTJPZa0 For Putin a useful lubricant in selling his madness.

Nice. Sleepy and slow.

It is just how I see what is happening, and not only in the US. A common sense majority center-left center-right spectrum is evaporating. In the US case the democrat party is leaving the center-left position not to "extreme leftwing activism" but to lalaland post-modernist stupidities bred in ...

As it is.

Rumplestiltskin spinning straw into gold? Indeed! Reality is always a unproven postulate, because we don’t know what we can’t experience. This is why experimental science is apophatic - a search for a more useful understanding than what we are currently using, but never reality. Instead of a par ...

A masterclass of 2h 17 min.

https://youtu.be/JmEl2KlgEFo?si=HoAj6gl0zzSm3AlP Metaphysical masochism There is a curious human enterprise in which the practitioner sets out to discover that he does not exist, that the world does not exist, that thought is an obstacle to truth, that desire is a trap, that individuality is an ...

https://youtu.be/IngAT7qYxrI?si=DHDWGSFm2OlJcuS6 The Putin + FSB crime syndicate rules Russia. Nothing new or surprising. What will murderous thug Hido de Putain come up with, cornered, with no victory to claim after 1M people went through the meat grinder already? The fact that the nuclear option ...

The Paradox of Power: Wealth, Free Speech, and the Structural Crisis of American Governance Introduction The relationship between wealth and state power is the central problem of political economy. In a democracy, power belongs to the citizens based on the principle of political equality: one ...