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- Jan 2022
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sorenteeple.substack.com sorenteeple.substack.com
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its
it's
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its
it's
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its
it's
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can not
'can not' is acceptable, but 'cannot' is generally preferred in formal writing
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who’s
whose
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…,
I would use either the comma or the ellipsis, but not both.
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standing on the greatest mountain of information ever.
Love this metaphor, we stand atop a mountain of information so high that we can no longer see the earth beneath it.
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what is not talked but fought about
An example might be warranted here.
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- Nov 2021
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civilizationemerging.com civilizationemerging.com
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As we discover, unknown unknowns become known unknowns (we become aware of new things we didn’t even know we were unaware about before) faster than known unknowns become known. So this process doesn’t even converge towards knowledge with a capital “K”. The ten thousand things simply become the ten trillion things.
This reminds me of an old idea from Alan Watts, that the scientific lens is like a knife that cuts the world up into tinier and tinier bits to study them. Even the tiniest bit we currently have can be cut again.
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Remembering all utility can also be towards destructive ends, intentionally or accidentally. Specifically because models are reductionist and don’t include all of reality, whatever is real and related but not included in the model is often where the externalized harm from the application of the utility of the model will occur.
This is a bombshell argument for the importance of epistemic humility!
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