Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Friday, May 29, 2026

The World is Unraveling: A 3-Step Guide to Staying Sane & Useful

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MindBlog has now put out a series of AI assisted posts on the disintegration of the world we have known and the infusion of LLMs into our po...
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Monday, May 25, 2026

Getting Gooier: How AI Is Reshaping Human Nature

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This post is the result of my back and forth interaction with Claude Sonnet 4.6 that has yielded the following summary of  Venkatesh Rao...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Executive Function: Universal Capacity or Schooled Skill?

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A recent PNAS article by Kroupin and colleagues challenges one of the most widely assumed constructs in cognitive science: that “executive ...
Friday, January 23, 2026

The Case for Being Human

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 ...This Colin Lewis lecture and essay on " Character, Clarity, and connection in a Century of Curated Selves " is a welcome breat...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Do we have an appetite for transcendence?

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I've been working on a long rambling post on finding meaning in the flow and evolution of the cosmos rather than in the varied anthropom...
Friday, December 26, 2025

What are humans for? - AI Forces a Question We’ve Been Dodging

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.  AI Is Already Fusing With Us — The Only Question Is How The argument about whether AI will enhance or diminish our our humanity usually ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2025

The Modernity Machine

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I want to pass on to readers this Venkatesh Rao substack essay that summarizes what his book club has learned in the past year:  The Modern...
Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Dangerous Ideas.......

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Deric's MindBlog is almost 20 years old. Its first post appeared on Feb. 8, 2006. The assertions and ideas described in that original po...
Friday, October 10, 2025

The 2025 Ig Nobel prizewinners in full

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 A clip from the Chris Simms Nature Magazine article LITERATURE The late physician William Bean, for persistently recording and analysing th...
Monday, October 06, 2025

Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America

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 A very revealing piece of work from Holiday et al.  Their abstract: Affective polarization is a corrosive force in American politics. Wh...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Value, Purpose, Meaning, Futures

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Value, purpose, and meaning vary between  religions and cultures, and are best viewed as emergent properties supporting altruistic behavior...