Eliot Frick

founder bigwidesky, futurist, theorist, autodidact, consultant, designer, musician, autist

[Eliot Frick @eliotfrick]

The stakes of our polarization are illusory. Yes, there is a ton of melodrama, but it doesn’t amount to anything substantive.

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[Eliot Frick @eliotfrick]

Ixabert is constantly trenchant. That he has so few followers is farce.

[Ixabert @LordIxabert]

@QuetzalPhoenix The word you're looking for is "mot-juste", as in,

"I can't improve on it; that adjective is pure mot-juste."

"I thnnk you've found the mot-juste; no other synonym carries the same weight."

[Eliot Frick @eliotfrick]

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Something has been shaping your reality for your entire life. It shaped the thinking of everyone who tried to resist it. It is not a conspiracy. It is older and weirder than that.

I've written something that tries to name it. (Link in replies)

[Eliot Frick @eliotfrick]

The genuine philosopher asks: What has become possible to think?

The academic ruminant asks: How does this fit into the authorized lineage of already-thought problems?

The philosophicologist asks: Which discipline, school, movement does this belong to?

[Eliot Frick @eliotfrick]

"In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake." - Sayre's Law

Those most needing to consider this are the least likely to do so.

[Eliot Frick @eliotfrick]

The progressive seeks permanent consummation through forward history. The reactionary seeks permanent consummation through recovered order. Both are missing a key insight: there can be no permanent consummation.

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@xenocosmography Reminds me of the disappointment Petrarch experienced at the ruins of Rome.

[Eliot Frick @eliotfrick]

AI Arrows and Maxims

9. It is said that AI is obsequious and this is a problem.

Is it a problem because you are too smart to enjoy what you see as pretense?

Is it a problem because you don't like being lied to?

Is it a problem because you think it knows you're not very smart and it is patronizing you?

Questions of conscience.

#AI #philosophy #psychology

[Eliot Frick @eliotfrick]

Possibility entails both generativity and loss. We want to preserve generativity and eliminate loss. That is the soteriology of unbeing. We are saved not by the resolution of tragedy, but by its embrace.

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We do not encounter the world directly. We encounter it through a prior coherence that determines what can count as real, relevant, or even thinkable. Almost no one can see this coherence. Leadership cannot afford that blindness.

I've written something that tries to make it visible. It is not for the faint of heart. (Link below)

#philosophy #leadership

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AI Arrows and Maxims

8. We can only learn from what we are willing to approach, and we cease learning the moment we decide we have approached it correctly. With AI as with all other human endeavors, very few see this.

#AI #philosophy #psychology

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AI Arrows and Maxims

7. Those who warn that AI will erode truth rarely notice how much of their own certainty was already borrowed.

#ai #philosophy #psychology

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AI Arrows and Maxims

6. The complaint that AI is lacking in judgment is most often made by those who reduce judgment to compliance.

#AI #psychology #philosophy

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AI Arrows and Maxims

5. The fear that AI will deceive us is often a confession that we prefer deception to uncertainty.

#AI #philosophy

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Quality has come to replace and domesticate excellence. I have written a piece about it and its consequences for leaders. Link below.

#Leadership #Excellence #Philosophy

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AI Arrows and Maxims

4. AI does not reveal itself uniformly. It appears at the edge of each person’s viability. For some, it opens new paths. For others, it closes the ones they were already on.

#AI #Philosophy #CognitiveScience