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Science could be the first victim of AI. But not in a good way.
Generational Talk is BS
At least from a talking point of view of millennials, GenZ, GenX etc. The differences these categories describe have nothing to do with the year they were born but with their age. The same issues you can read about describing… Read More »Generational Talk is BS
The Battlefield of Attention
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
The Alchemy of Power
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
Secularized Worship
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
Economy vs. Ecology
Economy and Ecology come from the same language concept. Both come from oikos, which means “house”. Economy is joined with nemein, which means “to manage”. Ecology is joined with logia, which means “study of”. Nowadays we focus a lot on… Read More »Economy vs. Ecology
Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
AI won’t save us. “As companies grow, they all end up with more and more layers of collaboration, review, and management. Why? Because otherwise mistakes get made, and mistakes are increasingly expensive at scale. The average value added by a… Read More »Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
Debugging the Confusion: Liberalism vs Leftism
What’s the difference? “And it failed. The proletariat did not revolt. The workers bought cars and televisions and became, in their modest way, bourgeois. The prediction did not come true. History did not end as promised.” https://tantaman.substack.com/p/debugging-the-confusion-liberalism
The New Lords
It is good to define what we are talking about. “The conservative said: society is not a machine to be redesigned but an organism that has evolved. Its customs, hierarchies, and prejudices—yes, even its prejudices—encode wisdom we cannot fully articulate.… Read More »The New Lords
Writing is Thinking
A lot of people are boasting about how they automate their writing to an AI. My take is simple – if AI can write it, maybe it does not need to be written. Writing is thinking. Outsourcing your thinking is… Read More »Writing is Thinking