Tag: Philosophy
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Bureaucracy Native: AI and Humans
Disclaimer. None of this is new. These ideas were taken, some verbatim from, Yuval Noah Harari’s interview here. Watch that video. It’s better than my article. Humans are successful because of our ability to share stories through language. Every complex system we’ve ever built has been dependent on language. However, we’re limited in our wetware.…
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Guiding Principles: An Exercise
I’ve been reading quite a bit about nature, physics, geology, philosophy and anthropological history over the past several years. Authors include Karl Popper, Hannah Arendt, Richard Feynman, Sir John Glubb, Max Tegmark, William Cronon, Will Stefen, Johan Rockström, Wade Davis, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Joseph Campbell. The reason for my inquiry is to form…
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Ask Why
My toddler is now two years old. “Why?” has become a way of life around here. The act of asking why causes one to think about the consequences of being curious. The butterfly effects may not be ecological in scale in most cases, but the trail of where one asks why leads individuals down the…
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