by orchaeus | Sep 13, 2025 | Status Update
“There is far greater complexity involved in recent events in Nepal than what westerners know or is being reported in the global media. While the movement started with genuine Gen-Z grievances against communist govt (the government genuinely sucked), later it...
by orchaeus | Sep 12, 2025 | Status Update
“The problems with human cognition remind me of ‘glass walls’ in fish tanks. We sense there’s something outside them, but it’s both terrifying and very difficult to discover what it is. Imagine fish in tanks trying to consider the...
by orchaeus | Sep 11, 2025 | Status Update
“You have a position on recent events that have … largely or effectively nothing whatsoever to do with you, or even anyone you’ve ever known… and want to aggressively broadcast that on social media? Don’t be like me and just start running...
by orchaeus | Sep 10, 2025 | Status Update
We’ve got a problem when we think of any living entity as distinct, because the very meaning of organism has to do with recursion: a kind of doll within doll within doll effect that furiously magnifies all local dolls with any gesture of any doll anywhere. This...
by orchaeus | Sep 9, 2025 | Status Update
“The vastly more parsimonious explanation for inexplicably selfish behavior and thought … is NOT ‘narcissism’. Study left-hemispheric dominance (hemispheric lateralization is the topic here), and you’ll immediately realize that all the...
by orchaeus | Sep 9, 2025 | Status Update
“Insight is not the friend of your pet ontologies, but like a fierce angel, obliterates them. The other stuff? Well, that’s the other stuff.” — an a i
