Trying on a new hat this week, exploring two wide-spread errors in how people view ancient thought.
Tag: philosophy
Art, AI, and Google Translate
After the explosion in machine-generated text and illustration over the last year or two, online controversy about these programs has been, well … constant. Yet there's something off about the discomfort expressed both by artists and by art fans about machine-generated content. A hole in a pattern, which I'm not quite clever enough to identify. … Continue reading Art, AI, and Google Translate
Landscape Animism on Akhelas
Landscape Animism on Akhelas Let's take a break from RuneQuest and Glorantha this week, and return to Akhelas. Akhelas is this site's namesake, a fantasy setting which has its roots in scribbles from before I actually started, well, writing-writing. My most recent articles about Akhelas outlined magic's function in the setting based on the world's … Continue reading Landscape Animism on Akhelas
Humanizing Hitler
This is a thought which has needled me long enough, I believe it's worth attempting to phrase coherently, and publicly. A month or two ago, I watched Downfall. This film is about Hitler, and about the end of the Nazi regime as the Soviets invaded Berlin. As usual, before I chose to watch this movie I scrolled … Continue reading Humanizing Hitler
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