And though I mean that, it’s important to realise there’s no ego behind it. No I to die. The only eye is the eye inside.
Tag: Brief Reflections
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Questions, questions everywhere. Why can’t we stop to think?
Eric Weinstein is right about one thing, and it’s important, LLMs are stochastic parrots because they mimic humans, and 99% of what humans do is stochastic parroting. Yet that is an artefact of our societies and cultures, and it doesn’t have to be so.
“Better is a day in the lifetime of one who perceives the rise and fall of things than a lifetime of one who is not knowing”.
“When you dance your dance along an edge in spacetime, is that when you meet your maker?”.
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Strongly worded statements
Strongly worded statements
Don’t feed infants
They hardly make a meal
For healthy adults
With added sugar and salt
From the nonexistent market
Strongly worded statements
Are worthless to the children
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What is knowable?
There’s only one universal constant that is absolute and not referenced to other ‘constants’, and that is that everything changes. Even wildflowers. And photographs. So in truth, everything is unknown — and unknowable — until/unless you collapse the wave function and go relative/subjective.
Here’s an Ethiopian pancake.
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It’s a funny old world. We can do better.
Why do we have rich people and poor people? What purpose does that serve?
Why do we care whether people are male or female, or how they identify?
What is so special about anyone’s skin colour, or where they are born, that we ought think differently of them?
Why do we have permanent war machines? Why do they cost as much as we’d need to provide healthcare, education, and everything else everyone needs?
Why do we have corruption?
Why do we have war?
I have this terrible habit of asking awkward questions. I can’t help myself. I find they clarify things better than the acceptable questions. I learned recently that, according to Sir Isiah Berlin, this may make me a philosopher.
The system is broken – social, political, and economic paradigms are all broken, and what’s more they are broken beyond repair. This is not a view from nihilism, quite the opposite, it is one from realism. Identifying problems is the first step toward finding solutions. Tinkering won’t do.
If we are to find climate justice through common cause and action, we will not do so within the paradigms that created the climate crisis we are facing. That much is clear. Certainly not in time to avoid triggering dangerous feedback loops. We may have already missed our chance, yet better to try than to accept we have failed before we have begun.
Politics and economics as they stand today remind me of the picture above: a steaming pile of horse muck. It needs rotting down before it is any use in growing a garden. It needs composting. I find it a useful metaphor to keep me sane in a seemingly insane world.
No guns are needed for this revolution. It is the natural next step for humankind. -
The Futility of Logic.
Sometimes logic is futile. Sometimes, speaking your mind is the one thing which ensures you will not be heard.