Oh. It let me log back in
Instead of debates, we should be holding ābattle-bots of the mindā, 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.
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, Iāve been saying that people would want to preserve and reconstruct the pastāonce we had a good way to experience and learn from the past. I think Appleās about to give us that.
The worst ideas of human history all present themselves as a secret wisdom, that others are too naive or fearful to share. In reality, they are all juvenile. They are the first thoughts anyone hadābanished because of our shame over youthful indiscretion.