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Playing God | Micah Redding | Substack

playful explorations of science, human transformation, and religion. Click to read Playing God, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.

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Instead of debates, we should be holding “battle-bots of the mind”, where ideas battle each other for epistemic supremacy.

Augustine was on the right path with his ideas about the mechanical transmission of sin, but he lacked the concept of memes.

Rubber Ducks are actually Rubber Ducklings

Unabomber: still bad.

Bo Burnham, but unironically

Exercise, carpentry, and writing are all the same transhumanist impulse to think with our environment, not in isolation from it.

For about a decade, I’ve been saying that people would want to preserve and reconstruct the past—once we had a good way to experience and learn from the past. I think Apple’s about to give us that.