Suspended Reason (@suspendedreason) profile picture

Na fortune & a name ta come.

Turin, Italy
Joined September 2014
We have moved to Turin! If you have friends nearby (Milan, Genoa) please connect us! If you are passing through, please reach out!
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Buddhism with Confucius taken out—an Indian Circe of dissolution.
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The holiest index of the good is the sound of children laughing.
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Best things I've eaten so far: - coconut, mango sago - brined tofu - honey huajiao shrimp - jellied passionfruit - plumsoaked pumpkin
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You win some you lose some
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Has anyone done fieldwork before? Gone undercover, infiltrated into a social group?
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"It is too late to be ambitious... Time may be too short for our designs."
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A very enjoyable history of time, with implicit parallels to our own moment, via @nemocentric and @antikythera_xyz historyofnow.antikythera.org…
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We are still in conceptual wilderness, comrades!
My recent critiques of AI alignment (and especially the idea of having marginal impact) are part of my research on understanding how to make ethical decisions. But more important than pinning down an answer is the idea of aliveness that Ben articulates in the post linked below.
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"A human being is someone who refuses to fully identify with an institution [or faction]" JF Martel for Future Fossils, echoing Montaigne
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@literalbanana has done a good job showing how to do text forensics in the Wikipedia age but I can't help but think a whole nother tsunami is comin
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