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February 14, 2023
Start from Paradise
In recent months and weeks, many thoughts have been arising and coming clear on the connection between melancholic longing or Sehnsucht and the way this feeling is both a kind of optical illusion and a distinct revelation of or pointer toward our real being and identity.
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Sehnsucht is essentially nostalgia for the infinite, nostalgia for paradise. C. S. Lewi...
February 10, 2023
Your Daemon Is Your Dharma
To cut right to the chase without any introductory throat-clearing: Your daemon is your dharma. Both are karmic ripples or waves on the surface of Being. “You” (ego you) are the crest, your daemon/dharma is the rest. It is your true relationship to the ocean. It—and you—will eventually play out and subside, return.
February 6, 2023
January 31, 2023
In the Age of AI, Is Unemployment a Disease or the Cure?
A question for our mutual consideration: Is AI-fueled job destruction a threat or an opportunity?
Those who know me are well aware that I have ridden the digital doomer-dystopian tech horse pretty hard over the years. Even a brief visit to my old Teeming Brain blog will turn up ample evidence of this. See, for instance, the tag cloud in the right sidebar, where the largest item is “apocalypse watch,” and where “dystopia” and “technopoly” are also prominent. Given this, the current explosion of cu...
