Showing posts with label human evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human evolution. Show all posts
Thursday, February 12, 2026

Against the Machine

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I'm using this blog post to archive for myself ChatGPT 5.2's summary of Paul Kingsnorth’s "Against the Machine: On the Unmaking...
Sunday, February 08, 2026

The Future of Being Human

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I want to point to Patrick Tanguay's recent Sentiers piece and in particular to Johar's essay .  I asked both ChatGPT and Google Ge...
Monday, January 05, 2026

Venkatesh Rao's 'World Machines'

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As usual, I found Venkatesh Rao's writinting in his latest piece " The Divergence Machine " a bit opaque and wordy, so I asked...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

The Institutional Stance - an evolved intuitive theory?

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I have just been sent an article by BBS (Brain and Behavioral Sciences) that is soliciting commentaries on an article by Jara-Ettinger and D...
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...
Monday, December 22, 2025

Human Machines and AI Machines

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The story of life is the story of machines that learned how to copy themselves and persist through time. Over billions of years these replic...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Evolved mental errors that underlie our current cultural and political malaise

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I recently looked back at a book I read in 2019, “ Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than ...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Could humans and AI become a new evolutionary individual?

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This PNAS opinion piece (open source) by Rainey and Hochberg is well worth a read.  It suggests that as different AI implementations suffus...
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...