Constructive Criticism

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Aug 6, 2024
Why are ideas from computer science absent from Marxist discourse?
The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps…
Jul 29, 2024
Brief critique on the species of utilitarianism found in Bay Area “rationalists”
There is an intellectual movement called “rationality” which, if one has any connection to the tech world, is difficult to avoid in the Bay Area.…
Jul 1, 2024
Prints! 2023–2024
Here are some Risograph prints I made in 2023 and the first half of 2024. Apologies for the photos being a bit dim.…
Jul 1, 2024
A vision for bathing in the Bay
Bathing is fun Bathing is already a popular pastime in the bay: from Archimedes Banya to Good Hot to the (sadly gone) Essex tub.…
Jun 25, 2024
Imperfect abstractions: On “Software in the natural world”
There is an interesting paper from earlier this month called “Software in the natural world: A computational approach to hierarchical emergence” by Rosas, Geiger, Luppi, Seth, Polani, Gastapar, and Mediano.…