Tag: politics
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We Are Not Scientists, Only Ideologues
There is no such thing as a mere scientist, or a merely scientific work. We have a myth that “science” and “scientists” operate objectively, but science does not operate, and we are not scientists. We are all operating as ideologues, with lofty ideals. Science is the slag we leave behind. Alchemists sought eternal youth and…
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Mass Media Parsing Schemes
A mentor asked me a good question regarding my last post: If interacting with AI as though it is human is detrimental to the human phenotype (per my Unoptimized-Merge hypothesis), isn’t that the same with mass media in general, or financial markets, which have always functioned as sort of massive neuron networks. I would argue…