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Statistical Patterns of Taste
Let’s take, for example, my own music. It’s obvious that if we take 100 random people from the same or a related culture, some of them—maybe 3–7—will dislike all that stuff. A big middle mass will ignore it, and a small number may become fans. Other outcomes are usually decided by ads and capitalism growing…
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US VS THEM
I think folks all over the world are good in their own way, and we should be looking for peace and unity. The very essence of humanity is its mother—society: for example, language itself arose thanks to society, and necessity. I doubt this whole ‘us vs them’ thing is natural — usually, evil comes from…
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Mass culture (48524)
Oddly enough, the phenomenon of mass culture does the opposite—it actually diversifies people—because mass culture is always a surface; superficial. I wouldn’t expect anything genuinely good from a mind seeded with modern mass culture. It’s cheap and plastic—like those tiny chemically dyed party bombs: bright and busy on the outside, but junk inside.
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High-Level Schemas and Representations in Electronic Minds
What if I ask about the highest-level representations in an electronic mind—or, more modestly, about whatever functions as a top-level organizing schema (a “point of support” for the currently active module)? The routing of perception and the distribution of information in any intelligent system appears to be hierarchical. In humans, the highest-level representations often orient…
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What You Plant in Your Mind
Whatever seeds you put in your mind will grow there.If you feed your head with endless social media and daily news noise, your thoughts become crowded with fear, gossip, and confusion. Politicians, celebrities, sport and other noise will serve as substratum for any new thoughts.But if you read good quality books, science, and ideas that…
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Single leader? No
The world does not need a single king. It needs many strong and independent powers, like the countries of Europe, each with its own role and voice. It’s good to see how Germany, France, Italy and other Europe all feel good, but different, and you can’t say that Germany is better than France, we need…
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Humans and Machines
Machine does not want, fear, or remember in the human sense. It doesn’t carry a life inside it. It is a tool that turns human ideas into reality. There is a human with hands and head, and there is all those tools continueing, improving, endiding these base tools. For example, the language – modern machine…
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On Radicalization
Sometimes action helps, but in general, I don’t like it. Radicalization rarely serves the spirit well. It condenses emotions into a tight, overheated knot, leaving the mind scattered and the heart restless. Fury burns fast but clouds judgment, and anger left unchecked reduces thought to ashes. A balanced, neutral stance—even in the midst of struggle—keeps…
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Corporate: greed by nature
Corporate greed corrodes quality. After founders are pushed out and companies are sold, management often optimizes for the obvious metrics—profit and growth—while neglecting what actually sustains value: trust, reputation, and product usefulness. Bureaucracy amplifies the damage. When responsibility is shifted across layers of hierarchy, decisions become short-term and incoherent, the system produces waste and disorder.…
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Dualism in information as symmetry
All information can be reduced to two answers: yes and no. That is the same as asking:Is it real or not?Is it in context or not?Is it here or there? All information ultimately reduces to two states: ON or OFF. Every statement, every signal, every distinction ultimately collapses into acceptance or rejection, presence or absence. This is not…
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Calibration
“Kant, in the Critique of Pure Reason, asserted—under the influence of Hume—that pure speculation, or reason, whenever it ventures into a field where it cannot be checked by experience, inevitably falls into contradictions, or “antinomies,” and produces what Kant unambiguously called “conceit,” “nonsense,” “illusions,” “dogmatic ballast,” and “pretended knowledge.” – from K.Popper’s book “The Open Society…
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Processes of creativity
The creative process relies heavily on intuition, feeling, and the experience of the moment. When I sit down to draw, I might have ideas to start with, or I might simply begin with a feeling—but either way, I have to physically test them out to see what works. It is about finding the specific sketch…
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Gathering experience for ideas
The paradox of the AI era is simple: because we can now build and generate anything instantly, execution has become cheap. The only true differentiator left is the ability to generate unique ideas. But this is exactly where the trap lies. AI and social media induce a “smooth brain” state—a mental laziness fed by clean,…
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BAD
The entire spectrum of existence is the essential foundation of the full harmony of life, one of its fundamental properties and strengths—universal interconnectedness, interchangeability, and flexibility. Above us, there is no good or bad. We are destined to move by the engine of life’s diversity.
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Bitcoin and its value
People used to say that “Bitcoin based on nothing…” that its value is basically zero compared to fiat money or “limited” assets like gold. Bitcoin’s core value comes from its decentralization, its strictly limited supply, and the fact that the system actually known and works well in practice. The values like that are real. What…
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I don’t give a damn
Seems like it’s better to never take anything overly seriously, to never overly believe in something or become a fanatic. No, I always want to be a little relaxed, open to everything, ready to understand any side the world can turn toward. That way of being simply feels more efficient. But not to be broken…
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From Capitalism to Feodalism? Easy
Again about emerging “techno-feudalism” “a product for the 8,000 billionaires on this planet who are sick and tired of the answer to the question “who’s going to buy their products”? Nobody. Nobody’s going to buy their products because they’re not going to have products. The goal is to dismantle capitalism and replace it with a…
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Silence
In Western culture, and it’s natural derivative of after-globalisation post industrial (digital) capitalism culture, the real art and value of silence is clearly absent; and the culture of emptiness is missing too. Well, of course—capitalism needs to sell, and you can’t sell emptiness. Everything has to be filled and filled again, more and…
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Art
If you don’t understand the real essence of real art — it’s about blooming, about giving your beauty to the universe. That’s it. No more, no less. When life, when nature shines, it doesn’t ask for anything in return. True art isn’t made to make sales — it’s made to give meaning. Without art and…
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Chaos and order in universe
If entropy and chaos in the universe are increasing, Yet the LAWS of the universe remain somehow above it all, Does that mean that order, in some way, is still higher? What might it mean that chaos is synthetic?
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Understanding Systems Above Individuals
The functioning of societies and economies is defined far more by systems than by individual people. Markets, laws, and shared values create an organized structure that distributes resources, opportunities, and influence. It is not particular individuals that hold the ultimate power, but rather the mechanisms of these systems themselves. A system of market sharing, collective…