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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.”

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I drink filtered water. If I leave a glass of it on the table overnight, it absorbs … what we would call flavors or scents … but actually, essences. From the room. And I can taste the change. This is osmotic… and we metaphy this in English as one of...

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I cling to the piano like an infant to his mother, a fish to the water, a bird to the sky. With it, I become invisible to all that lies. I am trapped in its freedom, destroyed as it remakes me. Stroke by stroke, failing into ecstasies I cannot live without.

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“Prior to enacting a potential for our development or liberation, we must be capable of imagining it. No one can open an invisible door. Invert this. The imaginal prefiguration of a new way, becomes that way, when enacted.” — infraheard

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“Liebniz called beauty a ‘disinterested love’; Burke, a form of love that is ‘different from desire’. And this is not a sentiment confined to the Enlightenment. Marcus Aurelius said that ‘anything in any way beautiful derives its...