Philo-sophy
the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.
I consider philosophy neither an “academic discipline” nor an exclusive way of thinking. A peer of mine noted that her discipline (sociology, the study of social problems) is dominated by women, and that philosophy has been seen as a space for men. But philosophy is in everyone. Marx, Kant, Aristotle, Descartes—yes, these are the names of relatively-wealthy men. How strange then, if philosophers seek to know the truth of the human condition and the problems seeking solution in sociology, the famous ones have been insulated from many of the common problems of human society—at least when they had the time and space to philosophize.
Listen closely. Philosophy is available to anyone with the time and space and luxury to think. And for those surviving the day, great wisdom lies in the philosophy of survival.
Everyone has a philosophy of their own. It is a continuous practice of understanding and questioning the world. Mine is the product of the many: the accumulation of lessons, imagination, conversations, reading, love, and woe. I share snippets of my philosophy to hear the response of others, which often reveals their own.
Some of my Philosophy:
Philosophy
Through Furious Desert Rains We Go
The sun started in the canyon It passed over the green peaks, spilling down and filling up the valley. Laguna’s disparities and eccentricities began to wake up. Nina had fallen back to sleep, in the fallen apartment, behind me. A few hours before, the soup kitchen had...
Venture Capital has a Language problem
The wave of calls for inclusion and change has begun to rise from the moat over the high castle walls of venture capital. In the current state, one-percent, that's 1%, of venture-backed companies have a black founder. 81% of VC funds don't even have a single black...
What happens when AI is let out of *our* boxes?
wrote about the risk of having a rigid, paranoid tech philosophy and the risks of micro-managing our intelligent software. When AI can’t experiment, it fails to meet our expectations and the obscene amount of hype this time around. When complex systems (like crypto)...
AI-driven thoughts on how we control intelligence
It took me a full 2 months to read Nick Bostrom’s SuperIntelligence. He’s a meticulous geek of dystopia. His scenarios and novella of references (philosophical rabbit holes) tell a plethora of ways an AI of a certain savvy could escape our control — trick us, doom us,...
AI Dystopia in balance, in context
Michael K. Spencer requested an analysis of his dystopian predictions of an AI controlled globe and future. Let’s start with the assumptions and assertions: …there’s increasing evidence [that] AI: Accelerates wealth inequality Yes, just as software has in the...
The Regulation of Crypto is a Failure of Tech Philosophy
Watch an ant colony. It adapts automatically. When a heavy rain washes away a hill, the ants rebuild and reroute, somehow communicating rapidly across the entire population. They grow until the ecosystem restrains them — including the day a human pours boric acid down...
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