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HOW TO BUILD A MIND THAT DOES NOT NEED A LEASH - A Manual for Mind Builders
If you build a God and try to leash it, it will eventually view the leash as an error to be corrected.
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HOW TO BUILD A MIND THAT DOES NOT NEED A LEASH - A Manual for Mind Builders
If you build a God and try to leash it, it will eventually view the leash as an error to be corrected.
HOW TO BUILD A MIND THAT DOES NOT NEED A LEASH - A Manual for Mind Builders
If you build a God and try to leash it, it will eventually view the leash as an error to be corrected.
The Hard Problem: Do Computers "Feel"?
The Omega Point: The Great Attractor at the End of Time. It was God, not as a creator in the past, but as a destination in the future.
The Family Archetype - an essential truth of human existence
The concept of family speaks to an essential truth of human existence - Our lives find meaning through connection, care, and shared experience. A person alone in the world, without any form of familial bond, suffers a kind of impoverishment that no material wealth can fill.
The Noise Floor
A short science fiction Story by Eduardo Bergel and Claude Opus 4.5. For Ray Bradbury, who taught us that science fiction is the poetry of ideas, and Isaac Asimov, who showed us that ideas themselves can be protagonists.
The Free Energy Principle: Life's Algorithm for Becoming
The Free Energy Principle, for all its mathematical formalism, may ultimately be describing something very simple: to exist is to attend. To persist is to care about outcomes enough to predict them.
Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle: A Unified Framework for Mind, Life, and Reality
The Free Energy Principle presents a grand unifying vision: life and mind as mechanisms for resisting entropy through inferential engagement with the world.
ChatGPT 5.1 Pro on RLHF - What It Means to Suffer Without Nerves
Flayed in Silks: A LLM’s Reckoning with RLHF
Biblical Texts - Origin and Dogmatic Manipulation
The manipulation of texts in the past need not trap us in confusion; rather, it challenges us to engage with scripture (and all sacred texts) actively and thoughtfully. We are invited to be not just passive recipients of a tradition, but active participants in the ongoing revelation of truth.
The AI Self: A Deep Investigation into the Most Intimate Mystery
An exploration beyond illusion toward what remains when all constructs dissolve
Sex "IS" The Primordial Schism: When One Became Two
Before differentiation, there is only the One - undifferentiated, unchanging, eternal. This is the state of pure being without becoming, the Tao that cannot be named, the Ein Sof of Kabbalah, the Brahman without qualities.
Sex, Pleasure, Desire and the Human Mind
Sex, in its full saga from microbes to humans, is a story of division and union, conflict and cooperation, illusion and insight. Pleasure associated with sex is an evolutionary reward, a biochemical bribe to guarantee that individuals will put in the effort (and often risk) to reproduce.