Eduardo Arsand

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Notes tagged with "Philosophy"

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The Weight of Awareness

Understanding more about the world can reduce simple certainty and wonder, making life feel heavier. The issue is not knowledge, but constant awareness.

Philosophy
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The Internet is Becoming Synthetic

The Internet was valuable because it connected human knowledge from all around the world, from popular to scientific knowledge. Now it increasingly consists of machine-generated content.

TechnologyPhilosophyArtificial Intelligence
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A Poem About Entropy

Several months ago, thinking about entropy and debating it with friends, I came with an idea of a poem. I'm no real poet, and AI helped me a little with some words.

EntropyPhilosophyScience
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Sacrificing the Inferior Self: Order, Resilience, and the Path to a Functional Society

Suppressing base impulses and subordinating the reactive self to rational structure is not repression — it is the mechanism of both personal resilience and civilisational function.

CulturePhilosophy
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Entropy, Progress, and the Illusion of Meaning

Exponential tools simulate progress while structural meaning erodes. Movement without direction is drift. This is the geometry of Zero.

PhilosophyCultureEntropy
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LLMs Don’t Understand — And That’s Fine.

LLMs repeat human knowledge without understanding it. This is not a flaw — it reveals something important about intelligence, meaning, and authorship.

Artificial IntelligenceHypePhilosophy
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