Despite regular claims to the contrary, AI Does Not Have Access to All of Human Knowledge — and It Never Will
Category: Musings
Here’s to the Householders
The people who hold together households hold together society—and we should treat them as such.
Seeing Is Not Believing
We see a great deal that we fail to notice and which we therefore never believe.
Check Your Lenses
Different tools enable different types of seeing and thinking.
When You Catch Yourself Looking Down on Others, Look Up
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
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
Love is wiser than wisdom. Wisdom knows more than knowledge. Knowledge counts more than data.
From the Inside Out and the Outside In
We humans understand each other asymmetrically. But that's a good enough place to start.
The Convertible Time Hypothesis
In any human life, there are basically three types of time: inherently good times, inherently bad times, and ...
Keep Bending Toward Justice and Truth
Some simple things you can do to make the world better.