Dispatches from the Apocalypse
Complaints, musings, and other thoughts from the end of days.
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On Being and Remaining Human, Part Three (opens the original)
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A series of occasional reflections on AI’s incursion into human life and thinkingA college sociology professor of mine used to say, “We don’t think to write. We write to think” During my time in college, he became frustrated that the freshmen in his classes were arriving with what he considered underdeveloped writing skills - which is to say, in his formulation, also underdeveloped thinking skills. His solution, within his sphere of influence at the college, was to create a writing seminar to he
On Being and Remaining Human, Part Two (opens the original)
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A series of occasional reflections on AI’s incursion into human life and thinkingThere’ll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read ’em but all that’s gonna matter is that little dash between ’em. - Kevin WelchThe struggle is real, as they say. But what if it didn’t have to be? Eliminating struggle, unpleasantness, boredom, is increasingly not only a possibility, not only an option, but a default. It has crept into my life in countless ways - ordering groceries replacing a we
On Being and Remaining Human, Part One (opens the original)
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A series of occasional reflections on AI’s incursion into human life and thinkingWhile I have now worked in and around health care policy for the better part of two decades, my background and academic training in is philosophy. When I first emerged from academia into a job market ravaged by the 2008 recession and began seeking something resembling gainful employment, my philosophical education seemed so distant and irrelevant from the realities of office work, particularly at the low end of the
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