"The Disabled God" for Buddhism
I’m posting a new format this time, a chat between myself and ChatGPT.
Audible Pragmatism
Topics/identities that will likely make an appearance are pragmatism, disability, deafness, buddhism, critical rationalism, post-christianity, post-colonialism, intelligence, machine learning, speech recognition, and others I'm sure.
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Read 2 days ago and current, but nothing has been published for 17 months.
Latest posts
Wicked is Bodyqueer at Heart
I saw the new (2024) Wicked film adaptation and, wow what a film.
Bodyqueer: a Term For All People With Non-normative Bodies
A little while ago, my wife invented (as far as I can tell) the term “bodyqueer” and as soon as I heard it I really loved it.
Artificial Neural Network as a Metaphor for the Human Brain
An article that deeply resonated with me when I first read it a few years ago was “The Empty Brain” by Richard Epstein, for the way it insightfully broke down ways in which our everyday language equates the brain with a computer and ways in which that metaphor can be quite inaccurate.
Contra Scott Alexander in “Contra the Social Model of Disability”
Scott Alexander recently wrote this post, which seems to misunderstand the “Social Model” of disability in a way that is very familiar to me and frustrating:
Welcome to my first Substack post
I assume you are here because I wrote something (in the future) that interested you enough to want to read more, and you ended up on the first post.
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This is Audible Pragmatism.