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“There are precisely zero ‘laws’ of physics, or Nature. Nature is not a courtroom, has no lawyers, and in no way resembles the concept of ‘laws’. No aspect of Nature is a law. And what humans have derived of the underlying principles,...

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“The problem with naming things is lethal, and mysterious. Nothing is more dangerous to insight, than the mind’s gunslinger. He shoots, mystery, possibility, and the future itself, collapses. Into a declaration. Of identity. Of knowledge. And here, is...

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“So I think there’s something far more obvious about that physicist’s cat problem. Which is that situations, things, and beings, transform under observation. Because observation is a mode of relation. See, the thing is that, ‘by myself’...

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One of my friends is like: “My mind is already developed, I’m safe from AI danger.” In my mind I see a child saying “My body is already developed, so I’m safe playing with plutonium dust.”