Choices & Automation
Taylor Pearson wrote an excellent primer on blockchain a while ago. While explaining why blockchain matters, he quoted something by Alfred North Whitehead Photo by Joshua Newton on Unsplash
Category: Flawsophy
Peak Abstraction
Our capacity to feel, imagine and visualise led us to abstractions which allowed us to communicate with each other. Even the idea of consciousness is an abstraction of complex neural interactions. Over time, abstractions have made their way into many spheres of our lives. What lies next?
Expectations? Surely you’re joking!
With all of my experiences and relationships thus far in life, I have made a framework for myself which defines my interaction model with the world at large. This is how it works.
In other fake news..
Went by the title, did you? Ha! This is less about fake news, and more about what could be called its second order effect. In Against Empathy, Paul Bloom writes about how many beliefs are not the products of reasoning, and gives sports teams fans and even political support as examples. He also brings up the […]
No help for it
No, not the help. A different kind of noun. Reflecting on a few recent events, I realised that we are capable of providing different kinds of help. There’s the help that we think we can give. It’s the story we tell ourselves so as not to make ourselves seem unkind or miserly with respect to […]