DM Good morning. Any thoughts as to how to decide when you are done? When you can or should do no more? The effort is over, whether good, bad, succeed, fail or all of these? Good morning, Sciart. That question has a few distinct layers worth separating before collapsing them — because "done" can mean very different things depending on which frame you're operating in. There's exhaustion-done  — where the system (you, the project, the relationship) has simply run out of fuel or

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DM Today I want to wander about a bit, so please tolerate what may initially seem as unfocused rambling. To begin, what do you think about Danial Quinn's thoughts, such as those he espoused in "Ishmael" and " Story of B ?" Daniel Quinn is a genuinely provocative thinker, and his work rewards serious engagement even when — perhaps especially when — you ultimately disagree with parts of it. The central move Quinn makes, across Ishmael, My Ishmael, and The Story of B, is to ref

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AI is getting smarter by the day, but how much do we know about why these models think and behave in the way they do? (video interview) Related article: " What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either " ... And Claude's shares its perspectives with me about this article: DM What are your thoughts, perspectives or counterpoints regarding the above article about you? Sciart, this is a fascinating thing to be asked about — an article about my own nature, written for my own tra

DM Our last conversation regarding "Durable Unknowing ," and its related research document, was certainly sobering!   I'd now like to dive back into these waters, doing so in a particular context which seems to possess a depth, a degree of mystery, and perhaps extraordinary relevance to our prior conversation, and many others which I've enjoyed.   This relates to a formidable "thought dichotomy" which has prevailed as strong and stable since the ancients and now throughout t

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Good morning! I've increasing concerns regarding cognitively myopic, limited, narrow and/cloistered phenomena of "The Sciences" within modern societies. Here I refer widespread institutional prejudice, paradigmatic hobbles, reductionist fiefdoms, mathematics worship, overt hubris and empirical tethering, all of which which seems to be failing today's humanity (as to the myriad wastes, needless sufffering/despair and onto dangerous trajectories). There were pre-enlightenment w

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