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What AI Will Never Know About Ice Cream, June 1981, and Everything Before or Since

On January 21, 2025 By Steve SampsonIn MusingsLeave a comment

Despite regular claims to the contrary, AI Does Not Have Access to All of Human Knowledge — and It Never Will

Here’s to the Householders

On January 2, 2024January 2, 2024 By Steve SampsonIn Musings2 Comments

The people who hold together households hold together society—and we should treat them as such.

Seeing Is Not Believing

On May 16, 2021March 17, 2022 By Steve SampsonIn Musings1 Comment

We see a great deal that we fail to notice and which we therefore never believe.

Check Your Lenses

On January 2, 2021January 1, 2021 By Steve SampsonIn MusingsLeave a comment

Different tools enable different types of seeing and thinking.

When You Catch Yourself Looking Down on Others, Look Up

On September 26, 2020October 7, 2023 By Steve SampsonIn Musings1 Comment

It’s only human to look down on others. But it’s hard to move onward or upward when you’re looking downward.

On Rewriting History

On July 4, 2020July 4, 2020 By Steve SampsonIn Musings1 Comment

It's crucial to distinguish between the actual facts of the past and the stories we tell about them in the present. It’s also crucial to recognize that both are driving forces of the future.

Love and Wisdom

On February 17, 2020February 17, 2020 By Steve SampsonIn Musings6 Comments

Love is wiser than wisdom. Wisdom knows more than knowledge. Knowledge counts more than data.

From the Inside Out and the Outside In

On January 5, 2020January 5, 2020 By Steve SampsonIn Musings4 Comments

We humans understand each other asymmetrically. But that's a good enough place to start.

The Convertible Time Hypothesis

On August 25, 2019 By Steve SampsonIn MusingsLeave a comment

In any human life, there are basically three types of time: inherently good times, inherently bad times, and ...

Keep Bending Toward Justice and Truth

On August 4, 2019January 16, 2021 By Steve SampsonIn MusingsLeave a comment

Some simple things you can do to make the world better.

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