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Category: Philosophy

  • on discernment

    The really blunt way to put this would be to say that a bit of cultural elitism might not be a bad thing right now.

  • mining our collective childhood for wistful cultural trinkets

    Metaphor is a powerful tool, and I’m a big fan of it, but metaphor is also a magickal working; if you keep describing an angry, capricious god, you’ll sure as shit get one.

  • international police cops

    I have long been aware that the reason spam emails such as 419 scams are so poorly written is to filter for, uh, low-information voters, shall we say—those who are more likely to follow the entire phishing chain, if they’re insufficiently (media) literate to recognise the initial contact as spurious.

  • help us elaborate upon what we are trying to say

    I don’t think it’s difficult to foresee the effects [of LLMs] on academic knowledge production at all, as the effects outside of the academy are glaringly obvious: I mean, have you tried searching the internet recently?

  • directions for the limo driver

    From a longer-term perspective, that even the unhinged instinctive autocrat currently at the helm of the world’s largest economic egregore can be persuaded to blink when confronted with the full stare of the basilisk deity that we have dubbed “the markets” cannot be read as anything other than bad news.