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Text Is My Gimmick
Reflections on the stillness of writing
The King's Great Fortune
There was, a long time ago, a small kingdom, and in that small kingdom was a prince who deemed himself just. This Prince reveled, above all else, in subjecting his people to the most peculiar trials. In his Princely youth, he enjoyed making his servants go about their chores while hopping around on one leg, or while tied to a dozen dogs by as many leashes. He often ordered his history teachers to…
The Bestiary Grows
Control, meaning, purpose, goals, recursion, and Water Lilies join the catalog
Anatomy of Augmented Thought
There is no magic wand
AeMug Chat #2 / Experience.Computer Interview
Scientific or Manifest or...?
AeMug Chat #1 / Aether Mug Evolves
I'll be posting less often and more in depth
I Witnessed the Birth of a Tiny World
How the mind creates and improves its framings on the fly
Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings
What exists is a matter of public opinion
Year Two
Toddlin' on
Never Slide Out of the Day
Looking back on how I've been looking back
Darwin El Naturalista
In His Own Words (Episode 5)
Darwin the Witness
In His Own Words (Episode 4)
Darwin the Man of His Times
In His Own Words (Episode 3)
Darwin the Voyager
In His Own Words (Episode 2)
Darwin the Fun-Loving Young Fellow
In His Own Words (Episode 1)
Cow Ontologies
Overcast. An old loghouse with a balding thatched roof along a mountain path. Goats linger about, munching at the anemic grass that grows around the building. A wooden sign, which might have once hung high but is now resting oblique against the wall beside the loghouse's door, reads: "Pilgrims Welcome" in ancient hand-painted letters. A woman, dressed in so many layers of drab coats that she…
Purpose Essay Now on Plankton Valhalla
A meta-cross-post
My Notes on: When Ants Are Smarter Than People
Group intelligence is worth talking about
Roam
You're looking for the Place. Not a special place, or an important place. The right place for yourself. A place that means nothing to anyone else, but that completely fills the nooks and crannies of your being and lets you hold on to the world as firmly as is possible for a human being. A place that is like it was made for you, like a rock of the perfect size and shape to be held snugly in…
Linear Algebra Explains Why Some Words Are Effectively Untranslatable
A modest mathematical framing of language
Steinbeck on Teleology
None of it is important or all of it is
Process World, Object-Oriented Mind
How programmers' struggles are everyone's mental struggles
26 Easy Steps to Taming Your Smartphone Addiction
And voilà!
Visualizing Framings
A stolen attempt
Strive as It Might
The eyeball'll never see the color of its iris. The hand will never scratch its back. The skull will never kiss its nape. The clock will never measure its keeping of true time. Unless, that is, they get external help. But what about the living mind? They say that there is such a thing that it is like to be what someone is. They say that science can't explain the simple fact of feeling…
Shake Up Your Boundaries
Six assorted examples
What's the Deal With Counterfeit People?
I asked a counterfeit person about it
Hi No Youjin
On quaint devices for time-travel
Claude Sonnet Is Teaching Me English
Today, even a lazy after-thought can become a useful project
There Is Thinking and There Is Thinking and There Is Thinking
Should we anthropomorphize LLMs?
Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments that Failed to Replicate
A quick reference
I Used to Know How to Write in Japanese
Somehow, though, I can still read it
Do You Remember What You Read?
Why I never skip a Readwise day
A Pocket-Size Checklist of Thinking Errors
All the ways your framings and models can lead you astray
New article on Nautilus Magazine
"How Optimists Are Alike"
Is It Bad to Have a Parrot Speak for You?
Retro sci-fi stories and how they can help with Reddit rants
Human Stigmergy
The world is my task list
How to Organize Your Thoughts with a Simple Bullet List
and a good text editor
Water Lilies, Water Lilies Everywhere
Patterns are anti-randomness and thought is made of pattern-stuff
Are We Losing Control?
A nitpick and a fable about the world getting more complex than ever
I Like the Sound of How You Look at Me
Japanese gitaigo are nuggets of mundane joy
I Do Not Remember My Life and It's Fine
What reminiscing is like without mental imagery
I'll Take a Short Blogging Break
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. —Seneca, Epistolae, LXXI., 3. TL;DR Aether Mug is taking a short holiday next week, and possibly the week after that. What's Going on Inside Marco's Mind - Don't Peek! I started this blog as a side project to capture the many ancillary thoughts I had while working on my main project, Plankton Valhalla (PV). The…
Determinate Self-Sabotage, or Obsessive Connoisseurship?
On the quandaries of kodawari
Replaced
What happened when I let an LLM pretend to be me
Meditations on the Color of Pee
The synthetic origins of what we consider normal
What if Gratitude Was Built Into the Grammar?
Another Japanese marvel
Case Study: Is There a Strange Culture War Over AI Art?
Studying a thought process
Breathing Through Your Belly Button
Take a look at reality for a minute