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Philosophy

An Overlooked Physical Risk in Long Guitar Practice

This post is not about technique, tone, or teaching. It is about a physical risk associated with long, uninterrupted guitar practice that many players may not have considered at all. I have played guitar for decades. Like many serious players, I practised for extended periods, often four to five hours at a time. I play […]

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Futurism

Fear of fully autonomous AI

The mystery here is that what makes AI so eminently useful is its ability to do what we can not in ways we do not in all cases need to understand. There is something of a resonant psychological pathology here: we seek at all costs to invoke generally intelligent autonomous systems that significantly surpass our […]