HeyJaredScriptorium Philosophia
Thoughts on philosophy, reasoning, knowledge, academia, and occasionally bookbinding.
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AI can never produce sublime art (opens the original)
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Back around 1993 or so I saw Michael Hedges perform live for the first time. You have to remember, in 1993 there were no cell phones, shareable videos, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, or anything like that.1 I had no idea what it would be like to see Hedges in person. Although I knew Hedges’s recordings with Windham Hill, I’m not a guitar player and didn’t have much of a clue about the kind of talent it took to make those sounds. A good friend of mine is a fine amateur guitarist and tried to tell me
It’s always one minute to midnight (opens the original)
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Doom is a hot topic, one mostly feared by people who believe that AI will (a) usher in a new feudalism with tech lords in gilded palaces and the rest of us in dung hovels, (b) destroy the economy, (c) make our lives meaningless, (d) kill us all, or (e) all of the above. They think the future will be a bot stamping on
By all means, never stop looking under rocks (opens the original)
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There’s plenty of legitimate complaints about academia. I’ve made them myself. But is it too much to hope for that one day, just maybe, people will stop falling for the availability bias? <source type="image/webp"
Gatekeeping and the public square (opens the original)
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Lord Bumptiously-SnobbingtonI recently flew home from Madrid, where I spent a week at an analytic philosophy conference. The conference dinner was a tapas event where everyone stands around in a very loud room and drinks copiously from the open wine bar. It was here that I had a conversation with a senior1 British academic I will call Lord Bumptiously-Snobbington.Lord B-S: “I edit [major journal] and we get 1000 submissions a year. Most of them are terrible and unimaginative, and barely say anyt
The destruction of the libraries (opens the original)
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404 Media claims that Amazon is buying up rare books, taking them to their slaughterhouse, butchering their carcasses, and grinding the contents into the slavering maw of their ravenous AI training machine. All of this is happening at a secretive operation called VGT3 inside a giant Las Vegas warehouse. Here’s 404 Media’s exposé.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nh6E!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-medi
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