The sheer unrepentant complexity and high-dimensionality of the Global problem spaces we face as a technological civilisation imply that to ever or even just survive, the proliferation of shallow and meaningless ideological caricatures may be a necessary component into the far future of humanity. Communication mandates a certain degree of simplicity but reality itself is […]
Tag: argument
Artificial Intelligence as Artist?
Art is nothing without controversy. You might even suggest that the adversarialism and dissonant entropy of disagreement regarding value or aesthetic merit is precisely the primary transmission medium for a hype and cultural salience by and through which art maintains sustainable continuity in the popular imagination and marketplace of cultural concepts. Is it art? Is […]
Every day, in the afternoon or early evening, for around 4 weeks a blanket of smoke has drifted across my city. I reflected on this here recently but tonight I found myself inadvertently caught up in the smoke as I was walking. My eyes are stinging, I have a sickening burnt wood taste in the […]
Brute-Forcing Truth…
Where successfully arguing a point becomes more important than being correct, it doesn’t really matter when you really are correct…
The Clown Car of Consensus
Being correct on an issue is often tempered by the necessary clown-car and selection filter of consensus agreement…
Rhetorical Poverty: Revisited
That an opinion has been expressed may be a fact but that the opinion necessarily represents a fact (or truth) does not logically follow…