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I'm finally about to drop my essay at Aeon Magazine critiquing the assumptions in question (shorthand: That "everything evolves into crab") from the position of a biologist looking at diverse evolutionary strategies and how they've played out in human culture. Monday!

Love it. But also, it's not linear. Your leverage extends in all directions in unpredictable ways. You usually don't see the biggest dominos.

SCIENCE

I think I found you... Location: Santa Fe, NM Michael Garfield 🔮

Michael Garfield, Michael Garfield 🔮 , conversationalist, explains: "This week’s guest is Cadell Last, the creator of Philosophy Portal, author of Global Brain Singularity and Real Speculations, and organizer of myriad conferences, anthologies, and collaborative volumes exploring

I do R&D by the way

The Savannah is already here. It is already full of predators. Now we are evolving the eyes and ears to orient ourselves within it.

🔥🦀🖥️🔥 My absurdly ambitious debut feature at Aeon Magazine is up — enjoy! This long read on human-technology co-evolution detours through sci-fi history, memeology, military history, etymology, thermodynamics, scaling laws, and more. It is one of the few pieces this year they've

Michael Garfield 🔮 Aeon Magazine This is amazing and ridiculous and well written and exactly what I would expect from you

Better hurry and read this before we all become the big ai crab at the end of time $TAO

This is an excellent essay by Michael Garfield 🔮, about the complexities about and of carcinisation, literal and metaphorical. One of the best I've read recently. Recommended.

I haven't even read it yet, but I already know you should. Sorry, not sorry.

The world was once full of warding magic: gargoyles and guardian lions hewn from stone, evil eye amulets, horseshoes hung over doorways Look into the history of jack-o-lanterns, wind chimes, and saying “god bless you” after a sneeze. You will find origins that are apotropaic (a

Meanwhile over here reading tons of stuff on distributed agency as ontologically prior (but yeah it's annoying to have to say "distributed" every time as if that's not the natural state of things) We need a new word that *means* "agency" but also makes explicit "is fundamentally

Hot take: The "self" is a holographic compression that takes a moment of experience, dimensionally reduces it to a tiny sliver/thin surface, and projects it back onto the field of experience. This operation is done so that the system as a whole can learn to coordinate

You homo crustaceous, you. A fascinating, entertaining essay by paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield 🔮 that swivels its vision about with the dexterity of a long-eyed swimmer crab. [Aeon Magazine] aeon.co/essays/are-hum…

Loss of consensus reality getting you down? Old news! We got this.