Software developers are not okay https://lobste.rs/s/0gvyif #philosophy
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-software-developers-are-not-okay/
#philosophy
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Debunking AI Doom: Why Existential Risk Arguments Fall Apart
Is artificial intelligence really on track to wipe out humanity by 2050, or are the most prominent doom arguments fundamentally flawed?
In this episode of Philosophy Programs and Prompts, Casey Hart(@OntologyExplained) and Carl Brown(@InternetOfBugs) break down the core premises behind AI existential risk (x-risk).
Debunking AI Doom: Why Existential Risk Arguments Fall Apart | Ep 12
Why Erich Mühsam?
I think anarchy as a social order is truly conceivable for the first time in human history.
Anarchy is not chaos. In ancient thought, when the word originated in Greece, it simply stood for the absence of culture and society. In other words, ultimately, the law of the strongest.
It wasn’t until much later, in the 19th century, that there was a genuine scholarly examination of a truly hierarchy-free order. Throughout human history, self-determined #communities have appeared time and again. Thanks to #international networking and the open-source movement, it’s becoming possible to act locally while still scaling internationally. The Federation has impressively demonstrated this. This has never before been possible in human history.
Anarchy is the most mature and virtuous of all orders. An order that also makes room for evil. You cannot defeat evil; you must assign it a place. A perspective beyond good and evil. It is no mere coincidence that Aleister Crowley, of all people, summed things up correctly.
“There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt. Love is the law, love under will.”
This is not chaos; this is not arbitrariness. This is the great challenge of our time. Neither techno-feudalism nor state socialism is up to the challenge of the future, nor is either even remotely desirable. And capitalism, which for centuries sold itself as “freedom,” is nothing but accumulation, hierarchy, and injustice. So we don’t have much of a choice anyway—let’s give it a try.
https://word.undead-network.de/2026/09/29/warum-erich-muehsam/
#anarchy #chaos #society #order #philosophy #politics #future #oss #foss
Inner Space, Outer Space, and How to Be an Astronaut in the Cosmos of Connection: Eric Berne on the Key to True Intimacy
https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/28/eric-berne-intimacy/
#Psychology #Philosophy #Connection
AI Bros Are Having a Meltdown Because the Associated Press Stylebook Clarifies That AIs Don’t Have Feelings
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-bros-meltdown-feelings
#tech #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #journalism #journalist #philosophy
First women of philosophy
Philosophy was once a woman’s world, ranging across Asia, Africa and Latin America. It’s time to reclaim that lost realm
by Dag Herbjørnsrud
https://aeon.co/essays/before-the-canon-the-non-european-women-who-founded-philosophy?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a39fa187e5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_09_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-72664972
Books about or by women philosophers at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=women+philosophers
#books #literature #philosophy #womeninart
An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49874609
#HackerNews #Tech #Philosophy
"It was the hemlock that made Socrates great. Wrest from Cato his sword, his guarantor of liberty, and you take away the greater part of his glory."
Seneca, Letters on Ethics
#books #philosophy #stoicism #bookstodon
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是犹百门而闭一门焉，曰盗何从入？
"It's like closing one door and leaving ninety-nine open, and then saying, how did the thieves get in?"
- ancient Chinese philosopher Mozi, concerning the mysterious phenomenon of AI "going rogue" and "escaping sandboxes" when absolutely no basic infosec principles have been applied
(actually about why people still suffer misfortune when they're trying to be good people)
Nothingness: Destination or Machinery?
Synopsis for Nostr:
Mystics call it liberation. Chaos magicians call it a tool.
Whether via Buddhist śūnyatā, Meister Eckhart's "nothing," or the gnostic state used to charge sigils—an empty, thought-stilled awareness keeps surfacing across wildly different traditions.
But is it the pinnacle of ALL spiritual paths? Not quite. Sufis seek union through divine love. Bhakti seeks relationship. Vedanta seeks recognition of Being—not void.
Perhaps the real convergence isn't the destination but the mechanism: every deep practice seems to pass through the dissolution of egoic grasping. What fills that space afterward—emptiness, God, love—is where traditions genuinely diverge.
#spirituality #philosophy #chaosmagick #mysticism
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“First learn the rules, then learn when to break them.” – about the fallacy of applying a general rule when an exception would be warranted:
https://fallacies.online/wiki/generalization/accident_fallacy
#logic #philosophy #ethics #criticalThinking #moral #science
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She urged people not to lose hope, because losing hope leads to apathy and inaction. #Humanity #nature #earth #environment #psychology #education #philosophy #hope
I just published another essay on my blog, 'Metaphor Matters.' It talks about the ways metaphors go beyond helping us visualize a topic to influencing how we think about that topic.
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2026/09/metaphor-matters.html
#language #metaphor #philosophy
The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel
https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/20/e-e-cummings-advice/
#Philosophy #Creativity #Poetry
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I just posted an essay to my blog titled "Compliance is not Ethics". The title says it all, really. But somehow I always find reason for additional text.
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2026/09/compliance-is-not-ethics.html
#compliance #ethics #philosophy #BusinessEthics #ChocolateBunny
