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An oil painting of Charlotte Brontë as a robot writing a novel while surrounded by stacks of leather-bound books.
A humanities researcher puts AI bot ChatGPT through a few tests, with mostly laughable results and one promising potential use.
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A Wise Thing Bearing Gifts: My Conversations with ChatGPT

December 22, 2022December 22, 2022 13 min read Walter Horn Artificial Intelligence, Christmas

A humanities researcher puts AI bot ChatGPT through a few tests, with mostly laughable results and one promising potential use.

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This Is Technopoly, an essay by Nicholas McCay and Erraticus
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This Is Technopoly

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 15 min read Nicholas McCay Politics, Technology

Embedded into every tool is an ideological bias, and unless we continually re-evaluate new technologies, we may end up within a technopoly.

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Fire Best Medicine Pandemic COVID Wildfires California
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Fire Is the Best Medicine

September 23, 2020September 23, 2020 12 min read Charlie Deist Chaos, Environmentalism, Medicine, Nature, Pandemic

Just as apocalypse means revelation, so can fire be medicine and poison. “Fire medicine” confers benefits on individuals and communities.

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Sentience, Not Consciousness, Is Key to the Cosmos Panpsychism Erraticus
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Sentience, Not Consciousness, Is Key to the Cosmos

August 26, 2020April 28, 2021 19 min read Michael Jawer Consciousness, Essential Reading, Panpsychism

If the universe is conducive to sentience rather than consciousness, then a scientific model for some even more fascinating phenomena emerges.

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Sacred-Scientific Psychedelic Future Erraticus Nicholas Mccay Emre Ozturk
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Our Sacred-Scientific, Psychedelic Future

April 27, 2020May 27, 2020 12 min read Nicholas McCay Emotional Well-being, Essential Reading, Mental Health, Psychedelics, Transcendence

Fears halted research on psychotropic compounds in the 60s. The Second Psychedelic Renaissance is now validating their psychological benefits.

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Atomization Social Technologists Solve the Alienation Crisis Totalizing Communities
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Can Social Technologists Solve the Atomization Problem?

January 27, 2020April 30, 2021 10 min read Jonah Bennett Atomization, Community, Emotional Well-being, Essential Reading, Liberalism

To address rising atomization and alienation, we must account for radical inadequacy and experiment with more totalizing communities.

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