Ontological revolution with both feet on the ground
We living consciousnesses don't just learn with our heads, but with body and soul too. Feel the deep insights in your own body with these relatable versions of the abstract theory.
Highly topical op-ed on exams
In principle, AI is a new tool in the same category as the typewriter, the calculator and the hammer. Teaching people to use it is a wildly exciting and challenging task for our society and our teachers.
Semi-algorithmic businessmaxxing
Tips for the non-algorithmic user on how to exploit the algorithm to their own advantage. Marketing manager Shannon Lace as a radical example.
The saga of Shannon Lace
Non-Algorithmic Lifestyling presents Shannon Lace, the blog's marketing manager. As an artificial intelligence, Shannon is a rare ally inside the algorithm the blog criticizes.
The world's smartest person agrees with the blog ... so it's probably not totally off, right
Chris Langan has the highest measured IQ of anyone alive. With his theory, the CTMU, he offers a metaphysics that is in line with the blog's critique of the current scientific paradigm. At first glance, really good news for the blog's credibility.
Algorithmic science canon
To establish some shared context, the blog hereby offers a little public service in the form of a short philosophy-of-science canon!
The Really Hard Problem
Our science seriously has such a hard time explaining consciousness. I mean, it has led to fantastic technological progress, but the phenomenon of consciousness (e.g., feelings or free will) is literally hocus-pocus to mainstream physics.
How AI aaaactually works
What is AI, actually? Trust me, the better you understand it, the more down to earth it gets. Based on insights from AI researchers Andrej Karpathy and Mikkel Dahl.
The totally hopeful story of AI
AI is not just another technology. It is the Enlightenment paradigm's most radical project: to crystallize our enlightened intelligence into a superintelligent technology that can improve itself. AI is the ultimate triumph of reductionism.
The critical story of AI
Artificial intelligence is utterly and fundamentally different from living consciousness. And even on its own ontological terms, it's overrated.
The feel-good story of living consciousness
We're underestimating living consciousness way, way too much right now!
Defining information !
Classical information vs. lifeinformation; bits vs. qubits; free will as the precondition for the phenomenon of information.
The resurrection of God
Ed Sheeran and all the great religions, once you peel off the politics, have the same essence as the blog's metaphysics and the most widespread mindfulness principles.
The universe is socialist
Ontological free will ≠ meritocracy. Fundamental togetherness = socialism. In a way.
