Our brains are hungry. “Although the brain represents just 2 per cent of body weight, it consumes about 20 per cent of our energy at rest. Every perception, memory, emotion and idea is metabolically expensive. Thought itself is an energy-hungry… Read More »Fuel for thought
Models are all we heave. [Sean Carroll’s Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas] 335 | Andrew Jaffe on Models, Probability, and the Universe https://podcastaddict.com/sean-carroll-s-mindscape-science-society-philosophy-culture-arts-and-ideas/episode/216160590 via @PodcastAddict
This was like reading Slovak dissidents from before communism fell. “People get the government they deserve—this is the crux of China’s problems. Overthrowing the Communist dictatorship is only a technical issue. Though “ruling the country by law” has long been… Read More »Struggle Against the Gods – First Things
Reading literally changes how we see the world. “Eventually, after repeated prodding, he said that while he’d never personally been to Siberia, ‘Tadzhibai-aka who died last year was there. He said that there were bears there, but he didn’t say… Read More »Reading is magic
Do we have any say in history? “The self you experience as yourself—the deliberate, choosing, narrating self—is not the primary phenomenon. It is a secondary formation, a surface effect produced by deeper processes. Your desires, your fears, your loves, your… Read More »Fate, Structure, Mimesis
And leads to strange results.
I am always surprised how many people do not understand this. “Models do not (broadly speaking) learn over time. They can be tuned by their operators, or periodically rebuilt with new inputs or feedback from users and experts. Models also… Read More »The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess
This is why virtue signaling is dumb. “virtus, channeled by the other virtues, leads to admirable deeds” https://acoup.blog/2024/03/29/fireside-friday-march-29-2024-on-roman-values/
Make people write, it will force them to think. The Boston Globe Wed, Apr 1, 2026 Typewriters: the anti-ai tool https://pressreader.com/article/281612426948366
Getting the answer is now the easy part. Building your own world map and wisdom is the hard one.