neonplatonism

reducing all ethics to harm is really harmful

Some days, you just got to eat the lotus...

fable is so good at glazing

Don't let consistency be the enemy of the good.

Yagkoolan yok tha, xuthalla!

Philosophy needs to invent new terms for concepts all the time as common sense idiocy appropriates old ones for dumbed down versions. Obscurantinism is the only escape.

Lem's 'New Cosmogony' (1971), written as a fictional lecture by an astrobiologist, gives us the following idea about true technological maturity: it is not flashy, but acts in perfect camouflage with the natural laws.

Property reifies labor, but personifies capital insofar as it is subkected to a subject as his enhancement.

The mind is a flat hermeneutic circle.

These are Ramon Llull's combinatorial figures from the Ars Magna. Each letter represents a concept, and by turning the wheels, Llull could create different combinations to see how the ideas connected.

AI is reification as a tool.

Part of aging is refining one's taste to the point that it becomes so singular that hardly anything anymore will pass the threshold of being good enough. In this state a man is naturally inclined to create, but this imperative is easily hijacked by nostalgia and bad critique.