by orchaeus | Sep 3, 2020 | Status Update
There are all kinds of advanced engineering intelligences involved in processor design. Listening to Jim Keller on Lex Fridman’s podcast was mind-opening for unexpected reasons. We have, you see, extremely advanced technical and engineering intelligence around...
by orchaeus | Sep 3, 2020 | Status Update
What the children saw was that the way it was in the minds of the adults, was often unreasonably restricted. They could see into the histories, patterns, and habits into which the minds of their parents had collapsed. And they remembered this. It was important. It...
by orchaeus | Sep 2, 2020 | Status Update
“Someone started punching me and then claimed to be the victim. I said “Hey man, stop that, it’s too much like American Politics.” He got really confused for a moment and walked away.” — Bobby Yingo at the [X] Room
by orchaeus | Sep 1, 2020 | Status Update
Got my laundry to the laundromat. The door was jammed half-shut. There were guys out front so drunk that they looked at me like I might be Jesus. I get in, I get my stuff into the washer and … go to get some quarters. The machine is off. There’s a sign...
by orchaeus | Aug 31, 2020 | Status Update
“Who knows how they forgot. We left them stories of a place where the animals looked like people, where exchanges and bonds were made. I guess they decided we made that up. The place isn’t precisely within them, nor in the ordinary world. But it’s an...
by orchaeus | Aug 31, 2020 | Status Update
On Damage to the Human Intuition of »Kinds. There’s an array of fundamental problems with our relationships with categories… in thought and language. Children are made of the solution, and adults sense this intuitively, but cannot recognize it. The...
