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- This content is for human consumption only https://orbistertius.substack.com/p/refuse-to-be-an-observation 49 comments
- English Is a Terrible Programming Language https://orbistertius.substack.com/p/english-is-a-terrible-programming 13 comments
- Language and our grasp of reality—we impose concepts on the world, and the actual ontology of things is much less concrete than we usually experience it. You are a verb, not a noun. https://orbistertius.substack.com/p/words-concepts-being 178 comments philosophy
- Jorge Luis Borges argues that novels have the same metaphysics as magic https://orbistertius.substack.com/p/the-metaphysics-of-novels-and-magic 115 comments philosophy
- Morality as a formal system: an argument that we should consider morality in the same way we consider mathematics https://orbistertius.substack.com/p/real-morality 160 comments philosophy
- Mindfulness is much deeper and more esoteric than mere stress relief—the practice is a largely empirical investigation of one's own mind, including experiences and insights about the nature of subjective reality, such as selflessness and non-duality. https://orbistertius.substack.com/p/on-mindfulness 16 comments philosophy
- Free will is the world of experience affecting the material world https://orbistertius.substack.com/p/the-shadow-of-action 5 comments philosophy
- The 1,001 Nights includes a story with a moral dilemma: a selfish act of violence which is also an act of mercy https://orbistertius.substack.com/p/the-moral-quandary-of-sinbad-the 2 comments philosophy
- English is a Terrible Programming Language—And other reasons AI is unlikely to ever displace programmers in any meaningful way https://orbistertius.substack.com/p/english-is-a-terrible-programming 5 comments programming
- In an increasingly rich information landscape, people leave digital silhouettes that make true privacy impossible https://orbistertius.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-anonymity 12 comments futurology
- Dostoevsky’s lesson on rationality, the ego, and humanity’s greatest profit https://orbistertius.substack.com/p/this-caprice-of-ours 2 comments philosophy
- Morality and Marginal Existence—Intuitions on anti-natalism, longtermism, and repugnancy https://orbistertius.substack.com/p/morality-and-marginal-existence 2 comments philosophy