Category: Philosophy
-
the cozy catastrophists of cosplay doomerism
Asterisk Magazine, which aspires to be The New Yorker of effective altruism, has a piece profiling “AI doomers” which, even after reviewing the author’s other sincere engagements with related topics, I’m struggling not to parse as a brilliant bit of parody and/or satire. … AI doom is a remarkably cozy catastrophe. If you suffered through…
-
the very capacities that make agency possible
A clip from an essay on Zhaungzi’s approach to virtue.
-
i find this line of questioning exhilarating
It was never about “tech”, not least because there’s no such thing as “tech”. There is only people using things to do stuff, and if that is anything, then it is politics.
-
an unusual segment of the species
Ross Barkan on the anti-humanism of those who peddle Those Two Letters.