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What my substack is about
Image courtesy Manolo Chrétien
This is not a blog.
I mainly use Substack to post draft sections of books. Several different books, on apparently different topics! This is probably confusing!
And since Substack is meant for blogs, it’...
Wakeup call: The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident
AI-driven advances in cyber attack technology threaten a near-term “moderate apocalypse.”
Current mitigation methods are inadequate. Better alternatives are available and necessary, but expensive.
An incident last week prom...
How “HIV is the cause of AIDS” is true
A case study in meta-rational epistemology.
“HIV is the cause of AIDS” is true, with nearly perfect certainty. This knowledge has great practical importance.
🇺🇸 Happy 250th! 🗽
Discovering dismay had been unnecessary.
Mostly all I can remember from the 1976 Bicentennial was that it was a Really Big Deal. I was too young to understand the meaning, which is probably why I’ve lost all the details. But everyone s...
Probability theory, understood meta-rationally
Electric eel. Photo (CC BY-SA 3.0) Steven G. Johnson
This post illustrates the meta-rationalist understanding of rationality using a relatively simple example: ways we use probability theory.
It is a follow-on to “The parable of the...
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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.
A space for inquiry, collaboration, and the kinds of questions that change how we live. Cofounder of Evolving Ground, a community of contemporary Vajrayana practice. Advisor to founders and researchers making extraordinary futures.
find me at andrewconner.com and noticingbirds.com
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