Atomic bombs were not the main issue. The New York Review of Books Thu, Apr 9, 2026 “The prospect of widespread firebombing obsessed military planners. In 1944 US Air Force officers even consulted Canadian and British insurance adjusters who had… Read More »A Man-Made Disaster
You can interpret any text in many ways. “What Paul probably intended as survival advice for a tiny persecuted minority became, once Christianity had power, a blanket authorization for state authority. The text didn’t change. The context did. And suddenly… Read More »From Galilee to Empire: The Institutional Capture of Christianity
AI won’t solve shit if you do not understand your value flow. “Every system has exactly one constraint. One bottleneck. The throughput of your entire system is determined by the throughput of that bottleneck. Nothing else matters until you fix… Read More »If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem – you have bigger problems
Why do we let AI do stuff we wouldn’t tolerate in humans? “Even in ordinary life, Crichton says, “if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say”.In other words: if your credibility takes a hit… Read More »The “A” in “AI” Stands For Amnesia
People can do what AI can’t. “We need experts to share what they know and improve the quality of our work, generated or otherwise. We even need idiots to make sure we can break ideas down into their simplest form… Read More »People are not friction
This. “”You don’t want to get left behind, do you?” They countered.That struck me as a bizarre sentiment. What is there to be left behind from? If BitCoin (or whatever) is going to liberate us all from economic drudgery, what’s… Read More »I’m OK being left behind, thanks!
Does it explain anything? “For educational reasons, the first time I heard “emergent property” was in reference to consciousness. I thought it was a joke. “Consciousness is an emergent property” struck me as a meaningless sentence, unless emergence means anything… Read More »Emergence Is Nonsense
You are what you consume. “you become what you worship. Give your attention and devotion to something blind, and you go blind. Trust in something deaf, and you lose the capacity to hear. Serve something that cannot feel, and you… Read More »The Battlefield of Attention
Religion always gets used for power purposes. “European colonialism didn’t invent religious capture, but it industrialized it.” https://tantaman.substack.com/p/the-alchemy-of-power
Religion in another form is still doing the damage. “A system built on terror produced terrified people who perpetuated terror. A system built on lies produced people who could no longer distinguish truth. A system built on the surveillance of… Read More »Secularized Worship