# valhalla (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover valhalla. Page: Feed: --- ## [GenAI Is a Lens into Humanity](https://aethermug.com/posts/gen-ai-is-a-lens-into-humanity?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2026-08-13 · Aether Mug_ not a person! ## [Text Is My Gimmick](https://aethermug.com/posts/text-is-my-gimmick?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2026-07-31 · Aether Mug_ Reflections on the stillness of writing ## [The King's Great Fortune](https://aethermug.com/posts/kings-great-fortune?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2026-07-16 · Aether Mug_ 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](https://aethermug.com/posts/the-bestiary-grows?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2026-07-02 · Aether Mug_ Control, meaning, purpose, goals, recursion, and Water Lilies join the catalog ## [Anatomy of Augmented Thought](https://aethermug.com/posts/aat?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2026-06-18 · Aether Mug_ There is no magic wand ## [AeMug Chat #2 / Experience.Computer Interview](https://aethermug.com/posts/ae-mug-chat-2-experience-computer-interview?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2026-03-19 · Aether Mug_ Scientific or Manifest or...? ## [AeMug Chat #1 / Aether Mug Evolves](https://aethermug.com/posts/ae-mug-chat-1-aether-mug-evolves?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2026-02-26 · Aether Mug_ I'll be posting less often and more in depth ## [I Witnessed the Birth of a Tiny World](https://aethermug.com/posts/i-witnessed-the-birth-of-a-tiny-world?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2026-02-19 · Aether Mug_ How the mind creates and improves its framings on the fly ## [Culture Is the Mass-Synchronization of Framings](https://aethermug.com/posts/culture-is-the-mass-synchronization-of-framings?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2026-02-12 · Aether Mug_ What exists is a matter of public opinion ## [Year Two](https://aethermug.com/posts/year-two?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2026-02-05 · Aether Mug_ Toddlin' on ## [Home Internet From Space (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/E5SYtpxsdPZF) _2026-02-05 · **Sponsored**_ Residential satellite internet that brings connectivity to homes beyond conventional networks ## [Never Slide Out of the Day](https://aethermug.com/posts/nsoott?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2026-01-29 · Aether Mug_ Looking back on how I've been looking back ## [Darwin El Naturalista](https://aethermug.com/posts/darwin-el-naturalista?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2026-01-22 · Aether Mug_ In His Own Words (Episode 5) ## [Darwin the Witness](https://aethermug.com/posts/darwin-the-witness?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2026-01-08 · Aether Mug_ In His Own Words (Episode 4) ## [Darwin the Man of His Times](https://aethermug.com/posts/darwin-the-man-of-his-times?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2026-01-01 · Aether Mug_ In His Own Words (Episode 3) ## [Darwin the Voyager](https://aethermug.com/posts/darwin-the-voyager?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-12-25 · Aether Mug_ In His Own Words (Episode 2) ## [Darwin the Fun-Loving Young Fellow](https://aethermug.com/posts/darwin-the-fun-loving-young-fellow?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-12-18 · Aether Mug_ In His Own Words (Episode 1) ## [Cow Ontologies](https://aethermug.com/posts/cow-ontologies?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-12-11 · Aether Mug_ 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](https://aethermug.com/posts/purpose-essay-now-on-plankton-valhalla?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-12-04 · Aether Mug_ A meta-cross-post ## [My Notes on: When Ants Are Smarter Than People](https://aethermug.com/posts/my-notes-on-when-ants-are-smarter-than-people?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-11-27 · Aether Mug_ Group intelligence is worth talking about ## [Roam](https://aethermug.com/posts/roam?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-11-20 · Aether Mug_ 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… ## [Reach prospects with real signals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ik7AE4yPboKD) _2025-11-20 · **Sponsored**_ Find prospects talking about your problem and get context-backed moments to engage ## [Linear Algebra Explains Why Some Words Are Effectively Untranslatable](https://aethermug.com/posts/linear-algebra-explains-why-some-words-are-effectively-untranslatable?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-11-13 · Aether Mug_ A modest mathematical framing of language ## [Steinbeck on Teleology](https://aethermug.com/posts/steinbeck-on-teleology?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-11-06 · Aether Mug_ None of it is important or all of it is ## [Process World, Object-Oriented Mind](https://aethermug.com/posts/process-world-object-oriented-mind?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-10-30 · Aether Mug_ How programmers' struggles are everyone's mental struggles ## [26 Easy Steps to Taming Your Smartphone Addiction](https://aethermug.com/posts/26-easy-steps-to-taming-your-smartphone-addiction?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-10-22 · Aether Mug_ And voilà! ## [Visualizing Framings](https://aethermug.com/posts/visualizing-framings?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-10-17 · Aether Mug_ A stolen attempt ## [Strive as It Might](https://aethermug.com/posts/strive-as-it-might?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-10-08 · Aether Mug_ 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](https://aethermug.com/posts/shake-up-your-boundaries?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-10-02 · Aether Mug_ Six assorted examples ## [What's the Deal With Counterfeit People?](https://aethermug.com/posts/what-s-the-deal-with-counterfeit-people?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-09-24 · Aether Mug_ I asked a counterfeit person about it ## [Hi No Youjin](https://aethermug.com/posts/hi-no-youjin?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-09-17 · Aether Mug_ On quaint devices for time-travel ## [Claude Sonnet Is Teaching Me English](https://aethermug.com/posts/claude-sonnet-is-teaching-me-english?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-09-03 · Aether Mug_ Today, even a lazy after-thought can become a useful project ## [Follow Releases, Get Reminders (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/4iQP6JdAvORY) _2025-09-03 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a genre or a name and receive reminders on release day — free. ## [There Is Thinking and There Is Thinking and There Is Thinking](https://aethermug.com/posts/there-is-thinking-and-there-is-thinking-and-there-is-thinking?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-08-27 · Aether Mug_ Should we anthropomorphize LLMs? ## [Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments that Failed to Replicate](https://aethermug.com/posts/famous-cognitive-psychology-experiments-that-failed-to-replicate?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-08-21 · Aether Mug_ A quick reference ## [I Used to Know How to Write in Japanese](https://aethermug.com/posts/i-used-to-know-how-to-write-in-japanese?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-08-15 · Aether Mug_ Somehow, though, I can still read it ## [Do You Remember What You Read?](https://aethermug.com/posts/do-you-remember-what-you-read?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-08-07 · Aether Mug_ Why I never skip a Readwise day ## [A Pocket-Size Checklist of Thinking Errors](https://aethermug.com/posts/a-pocket-size-checklist-of-thinking-errors?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-07-31 · Aether Mug_ All the ways your framings and models can lead you astray ## [New article on Nautilus Magazine](https://aethermug.com/posts/new-article-on-nautilus-magazine?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-07-23 · Aether Mug_ "How Optimists Are Alike" ## [Is It Bad to Have a Parrot Speak for You?](https://aethermug.com/posts/is-it-bad-to-have-a-parrot-speak-for-you?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-07-17 · Aether Mug_ Retro sci-fi stories and how they can help with Reddit rants ## [Human Stigmergy](https://aethermug.com/posts/human-stigmergy?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-07-10 · Aether Mug_ The world is my task list ## [How to Organize Your Thoughts with a Simple Bullet List](https://aethermug.com/posts/how-to-organize-your-thoughts-with-a-simple-bullet-list?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-07-03 · Aether Mug_ and a good text editor ## [Water Lilies, Water Lilies Everywhere](https://aethermug.com/posts/water-lilies-water-lilies-everywhere?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-06-27 · Aether Mug_ Patterns are anti-randomness and thought is made of pattern-stuff ## [Are We Losing Control?](https://aethermug.com/posts/are-we-losing-control?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-06-19 · Aether Mug_ A nitpick and a fable about the world getting more complex than ever ## [I Like the Sound of How You Look at Me](https://aethermug.com/posts/i-like-the-sound-of-how-you-look-at-me?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-06-11 · Aether Mug_ Japanese gitaigo are nuggets of mundane joy ## [I Do Not Remember My Life and It's Fine](https://aethermug.com/posts/i-do-not-remember-my-life-and-it-s-fine?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-06-05 · Aether Mug_ What reminiscing is like without mental imagery ## [I'll Take a Short Blogging Break](https://aethermug.com/posts/i-ll-take-a-short-blogging-break?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-05-15 · Aether Mug_ 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?](https://aethermug.com/posts/self-sabotage-connoisseurship?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-05-08 · Aether Mug_ On the quandaries of kodawari ## [Replaced](https://aethermug.com/posts/replaced?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-05-01 · Aether Mug_ What happened when I let an LLM pretend to be me ## [Meditations on the Color of Pee](https://aethermug.com/posts/meditations-on-the-color-of-pee?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-04-23 · Aether Mug_ The synthetic origins of what we consider normal ## [What if Gratitude Was Built Into the Grammar?](https://aethermug.com/posts/what-if-gratitude-was-built-into-the-grammar?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-04-17 · Aether Mug_ Another Japanese marvel ## [Case Study: Is There a Strange Culture War Over AI Art?](https://aethermug.com/posts/is-there-a-strange-culture-war-over-ai-art?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-04-10 · Aether Mug_ Studying a thought process ## [Breathing Through Your Belly Button](https://aethermug.com/posts/breathing-through-your-belly-button?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss) _2025-04-03 · Aether Mug_ Take a look at reality for a minute