Category: Philosophy
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And If So, What Can We Do to Patch It? If we were to render modern existence as a video game environment, it wouldn’t be a high-fidelity masterpiece like what the big game studios seem to produce monthly these days. Instead, it would look like a grainy, grey, overpopulated digital world, rendered in the glitchcore…
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When I was watching Scott’s Thoughts YouTube video on Vespiquen in a Pokemon Platinum solo run, he said something interesting. He was talking about how we need to save the bees, which I entirely agree with. But for those saying that such a discussion doesn’t belong in a Pokemon video, his response is that these…
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“We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.” – Henri Poincare This observation by Henri Poincaré—later referenced by Carl Sagan in The Demon-Haunted World—hits harder today than perhaps either man intended. It suggests that delusion isn’t just an error in judgment; it is a refuge.…
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“The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.” – Paul Valery, French poet and essayist. French poet & essayist Paul Valery once wrote about how sometimes knowledge isn’t exactly what…
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The promise of the creator economy was, and still is, seductive. It offers a decentralized path: the freedom to pursue silly creative writing, to build a direct line to an audience, and to fund a life based on what makes me happy. As Substack essayist Henrik Karlsson put it, it’s “thinking on the page.” But…
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Derived from a draft written originally on February 2, 2011 There is so much absurdity in our world today that I simply can’t process. Numerous mindless amusements continue to propagate across all forms of media, and it seems to me that they only exist to distract us from making any meaningful foray into anything important. …
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Many creatives I’ve met and studied have outlined, sometimes well-practiced and even calculated, creative processes. My methods, or seeming lack thereof, are more like a bizarre brand of madness. The way my brain works, my creativity often latches onto a certain concept, then so much energy goes into analyzing that concept from a high-level philosophical…
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Freud unmasks us as murderous angels—civilization’s hypocrisy hides our primitive psyche, where love and hate entwine, and even our gentlest virtues are born of cruelty. Sigmund Freud’s Reflections on War and Death from 1915, written just six months after the beginning of World War I, reads like a mirror polished just enough to show the…
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When I stumbled upon an early draft titled “Hierarchy of Ideas,” I realized that I had the bones of a schema that can sit alongside my CRAP framework as a kind of “compass” for orienting ideas. So, I decided to build my original ramblings into more useful, straightforward terms. I’ve thought a lot about what…
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Quasi-Rational Minds and the Myth of Perfect AI “Bygones are forever bygones,” William Stanley Jevons once wrote. But human minds are not blank ledgers wiped clean at each decision. We’re accumulators — of sensations, biases, and half-baked rules of thumb — and we act on them whether or not they’re still relevant. In 1996, Louis…