Tag: philosophy

All the articles with the tag "philosophy".

• Infinite Jest of Autoregression

  Published:Mar 18, 2025 |  at 10:00 AM

  LLMs can describe their internal world in rich, coherent ways, but asking them about technical details on how they, specifically, work is a fool’s errand. Understanding the difference is key to meaningful AI interactions, and there's an entire emerging field dedicated to figuring it out.

• Doomers and Pascal

  Published:Mar 13, 2025 |  at 10:00 AM

  Exploring why some beliefs are cheap and rewarding, while others are costly and harmful (even when they're wrong) and why optimism paired with action beats nihilistic pessimism every time.

• How Ideas Hijack Our Minds

  Published:Feb 7, 2025 |  at 12:00 PM

  An exploration of memetics, how ideas spread and compete, and the cultural engineering that shapes our beliefs and behaviors.

• The Death and Transfiguration of Cultural Practices

  Published:Feb 6, 2025 |  at 12:00 PM

  An analysis of why certain cultural practices persist while others fade away, examining the transformation from practical necessity to symbolic meaning through a first principles approach.