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On attunement - Joe Carlsmith

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(This essay is part of a series that I’m calling “Otherness and control in the age of AGI.” I’m hoping that the individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief summaries of the essays that have been released thus far.) “You, moon, You, Aleksander, fire of cedar logs. Waters close over us, a name lasts but an instant. Not important whether the generations hold us in memory. Great was that chase with the hounds for the unattainable meaning of the world.” My last essay examined a philosophical vibe that I (following others) call “green.” Green is one of the five colors on the Magic the Gathering Color Wheel, which I’ve found (despite not playing Magic myself) an interesting way of classifying the sort of the energies that tend to animate people.1 The colors, and their corresponding shticks-according-to-Joe, are: I haven’t found a single word that I think captures green. Associations include: environmentalism, tradition, family, spirituality, hippies, stereot

On attunement - Joe Carlsmith Otherness and control in the age of AGI / Part 10 On attunement Contents hide How do you know what matters? Gestures at attunement Attunement and your true heart Green, therefore... A future without attunement Primal blue Being your soul Last updated: 07.22.2024 Published: 03.25.2024 Series Otherness and control in the age of AGI / Part 10 On attunement Podcast version here , or search for “Joe Carlsmith Audio” on your podcast app. (This essay is part of a series that I’m calling “Otherness and control in the age of AGI.” I’m hoping that the individual essay can b

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