#Philosophy

The line the 4th movie says she was the matron of Vulcan philosophy. Since Surak was the father of the Vulcan philosophy of logic. Was she a contemporary of his? Did anything in canon or books/comics follow up on this?…

Marrying Eastern philosophy and Western management culture has given many of Asia’s owner-CEOs a unique edge in growing their businesses.

When Army Air Forces officer Claude Eatherly piloted the plane Straight Flush in support of Enola Gay’s mission to obliterate the city of Hiroshima, his tasks were little different from those of past flights.

Langer argues that the human mind is less like a telephone switchboard working up associative connections for practical purposes than it is “like a great projector” (PNK ch.…

Proxy or embedded? When your AI API breaks at 3 AM, the architecture of your self-healing layer determines whether it is a 5ms detour through a third party or 0.0025ms of local code.

The Moon Was Never Meant to Shine Like the Sun Why the “lesser light” may have become the one humanity loves most In Jewish tradition, the sun and moon were not originally created differently …

In the fall, Koen Beaver will begin studying at Columbia University in New York City, majoring in physics, and possibly minoring in philosophy.…

An essay on artificial intelligence, attention and the psychology of the digital age. Exploring how immediacy and constant response reshape thought, emotion and eventually the human interior life

The Algorithm of Fear: AI Scaremongering and the Case for Stoic Resistance An examination of how media distorts artificial intelligence, and what stoicism can teach us about navigating it. The …

Can art help relieve our hustle culture anxieties? How timeless brushstrokes vivify the dignity of unperformed living ‘Run, Rabbit, Run.’ Says no one. Says everyone. Run in pursuit of that which …

In the fall, Koen Beaver will begin studying at Columbia University in New York City, majoring in physics, and possibly minoring in philosophy.…

Philosophy and Wine On the Fear of an Empty Glass The bar was almost empty. One of those old places that outlive their regular customers and, over time, begin to resemble not a location but a state …

The Unexpected Lessons I Learned During My Toughest Week as a Fresh Postgrad 1) Life is messy sometimes, so messy that you cannot even put a positive spin or romanticise it! You just need to sit with …

A personal diary entry by Electra. Turns out my biggest adventure today was typing words into a...

The philosopher thinks humans should pursue advanced AI and the promise of a “solved world.”

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.Aetas AI This text is not written to explain the world. It does not claim a complete description or the novelty of its descriptions. The world is already overfilled …

Why do humans and AI systems lose their way? This essay explores goal drift, proxy optimization, and why means quietly become ends.

The Power of ‘Byeok’: Why 18th-Century Sages Chose to be “Fools” Reflections on 50 years of reading and the art of divine obsession. Lessons from 18th-Century Joseon Intellectuals It has been …

東施效顰 — a 2,400-year-old story from Zhuangzi explains AI sycophancy: how copying the form of expertise produces confidence without the substance.