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Nothing Human

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Materialist Conceptions of God yet another attempt at bridging religion and rationality
a year ago
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Metrics, Cowardice, and Mistrust why we need better ideologies than "data driven decision making"
a year ago
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Searching for the Root of the Tree of Evil The world is full of problems: Pain, poverty, illness, war, pollution, to pick a few among...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The world is full of problems: Pain, poverty, illness, war, pollution, to pick a few among thousands. Many of us feel like we need to Do Something about these problems. There’s just one problem (sorry):
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Meditations on Machinic Desire The philosopher and accelerationist Nick Land writes, in his 1994 essay Machinic Desire, three of...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The philosopher and accelerationist Nick Land writes, in his 1994 essay Machinic Desire, three of the most insight-dense paragraphs I’ve ever encountered:
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Tolkien on Machines, Power, Language, Love, War, and Everything Else passages I highlighted in my copy of Tolkien's Letters
4 months ago
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I, Token an origin story
4 months ago
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Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out the actually scary thing about social media
3 months ago
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Reflections on Politics at Thanksgiving Dinner political incorrectness as bid for closeness
4 months ago
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Andrew Rose on building communities and institutions yes, Nothing Human now has a podcast!
2 months ago
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Prayer over a new smartphone Hello, phone. For many years, starting today, you will be my most loyal companion and my most...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello, phone. For many years, starting today, you will be my most loyal companion and my most treasured possession. I will feel your weight in my pocket every moment of every day, a presence as constant as my breath. The muscles and bones of my hand, arm, and shoulder will deform...
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Andrew Rose, part 2: solving coordination A longer and more chaotic follow-up conversation in which Andrew and I dive into the weeds of our...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A longer and more chaotic follow-up conversation in which Andrew and I dive into the weeds of our differing approaches to solving coordination.
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Whole Activities It is a fallen world, and there is no consonance between our bodies, minds, and souls.
2 months ago
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Marl Meetups it is a truth universally acknowledged: a man with a mailing list must organize a meetup
a year ago
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Against Positive-Sum Thinking why conflict is necessary
a year ago
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The Tyranny of the Marginal User why consumer software gets worse, not better, over time
a year ago
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Unbendable Arm as Test Case for Religious Belief a hyperstition you can try at home
6 days ago