fun theories
Schrödinger's feelings
An adventurous philosophical discussion that positions subjective feelings as decoherence milestones in the many-worlds/many-minds interpretations.
Saragh Argh
Curious absurdist. Busy thinker by day, multi-passionate creator also by day. Sleepy girl by night.
social media
Normalizing social media addiction doesn't decrease its costs
When an entire population is addicted to the same thing, where does rehabilitation even start when every institution is a pusher and every person an enabler? The field of psychiatry has yet to formally diagnose "social media addiction", and when I searched for reasons why that is, the
romance
Parasocial romance is why we can't connect
In a recent post, On the quiet power of becoming nobody I touched on how social media fragments our ability to connect with others in the real world, and what it means to finally find oneself outside of it. I'm going to extend those thoughts here. The longer
corporate libertarianism
The corporate libertarian movement is why no one will save Alberta
I swore I'd release my mind from fussing over politics, but a new blatant truth is sitting in front of us and the established political commentariat seems too preoccupied with superficial engagement clout to notice it. I'm not a poli-sci grad or an economist, which
Musings
On the quiet power of becoming nobody
Stripped of "online presence", who are we? This question feels more urgent as personalized technology lulls us ever deeper into self-obsessive surrealities; social algorithms that trap us in feedback loops of self-worth, dealing just enough dopamine to keep us on the verge of feeling seen. I&
AI
The impossible nuance of LLM discourse
Update: Just after publishing this I saw the news of Anthropic agreeing to rent all of its compute capacity to xAI's (Musk's) "Colossus" supercomputer and the dev world is aBUZZ. This is distressing news for ethics-aligned developers working with Claude agents, both because
time rights
The Kardashev scale bottleneck isn't intelligence, it's Capitalists
Building from my last post, A tiny manifesto for Time Rights, written by a Duck ai assistant, I realized I had more to say re: the commodification of time, especially relating to its corrosive impact on intelligence overall. This is something I noticed even during my conversation with the Duck
time rights
A tiny manifesto for Time Rights, written by a Duck ai assistant
I'll start with my own words, the manifesto comes later: I've been fixated on the concept of time for most of my life, always feeling existentially short on it as though I'll never get through everything in this lifespan (which I hope will be
memetics
On memetic influence and viral immunity ~ Part I
Following my last post on the ethos of grift in the nonprofit sector, my winding path of mulling and musing led me to concepts of memetics – that is, the study of memes. Back in 2019 I posted on FB about memes ruining democracy – the discourse I was part of, heavily
thought leadership
The ethos of grift has taken the nonprofit sector, and AI is its accelerator
Yesterday while watching a Stanford-sponsored, nonprofit-targeted presentation recommended by an executive-level director on "healthy cognitive offloading with AI", I had an anxiety attack. The presentation was AI-generated, full of errors, logical inconsistencies and blatant manipulation of reason. The presenter was taken at her word
Mark Carney
Carney's Davos speech was a sales pitch
Our elite banker-turned-Prime Minister has entered Canada into a self-imposed, nonstandard Structural Adjustment Program, enforcing economic measures typically applied to developing nations. Why? My previous interpretations of Carney's Davos speech, first identifying it as a sales pitch (which it was) and then noting his alignments
agency
On agency and the existential exploitation of Cloud Capitalism
It recently occurred to me that the reach of Marxist thought might be falling short in terms of contextualizing the struggles of Cloud Capitalism. What happens when the modes of production are iterated into complete abstraction? How does materialism account for the digital aether? What does it mean for the