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Nathalie Lawhead (alienmelon)<p>steam review for “everything is going to be ok” that made me laugh pretty hard:<br>“very cute but it makes you think about life”<br>😱🫣🫢<br>inadvertently thinking about life is a feature not a bug!<br>…paying 2 dollars for an indie game will get u that.<br>👉👉 existentialism: <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/762370/Everything_is_going_to_be_OK/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">store.steampowered.com/app/762</span><span class="invisible">370/Everything_is_going_to_be_OK/</span></a><br>~<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieGame</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IndieGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieGames</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/VideoGame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VideoGame</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/existentialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>existentialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/surrealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surrealism</span></a></p>
Aneesh Sathe<p><strong>The Plato Plateau</strong></p><p>This post started off as a joke. I was attempting to snow clone the Peter Principle for philosophy. It led to a longer thread of thoughts. But first, the snow clone:&nbsp;</p><p><strong>The Plato Plateau:</strong> People philosophize to the level of their anxiety.</p><a href="https://aneeshsathe.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/image-from-rawpixel-id-459434-jpeg.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Smoking farmer with branches by Kono Bairei (1844-1895). Digitally enhanced from our own original 1913 edition of Barei Gakan.<ol><li>Anxiety is the realization that you have absolute choice over life – Kierkegaard. Anxiety, in this context is not nervousness. It is a positive thing when harnesses. We harness it everyday. &nbsp;</li><li>Anxiety is a generative. Anxiety creates identity by locating stable places to launch exploration.</li><li>Action, exploration, and anxiety are a motor. Anxiety → exploration → action → refreshed identity. Inaction leads to identity death</li><li>Realizing you are radically free to choose can also lead to a forest of perceived signals. These can be an overwhelming inbox or simply overloaded ambition.</li><li>When anxiety overwhelms it becomes difficult to tell signal from noise.</li><li>Tools like GTD crash anxiety. When overwhelmed, GTD works well. When there is too little anxiety identity becomes ephemeral.&nbsp;</li><li>GTD isn’t a means to nirvana: GTD integrates 10k, 30k foot views to reintroduce future anxiety.</li><li>When your identity is smeared across too many anxieties you declare anxiety bankruptcy and crash your identity in some safe spot. Journals, sabbaticals, quitting.</li><li>Like the parable of the rock soup, vaporized anxiety needs a <em>place</em> to condense onto. Ideally something disposable but sufficient to let your identity create an “ordered world of meaning”</li><li>Life examination occurs with identity crashes. Philosophy provides just enough of a toehold in the abstract to spur action in the actual.&nbsp;</li><li>Philosophy is a way to spur action absent anxiety/identity. We pick the philosophy depending on the degree of identity loss.</li><li>Philosophy can be broadly sorted as:<ol><li>Survival – laws and tactics oriented</li><li>Social Cohesion- harmony, virtue ethics, etiquette&nbsp;</li><li>Systems level order – algorithms and protocols oriented</li><li>Self Knowledge and Meaning – reflecting on existing and consciousness&nbsp;</li><li>Meta-systems – theorizes about theories</li></ol></li><li>Most scientists and builders work best at level 3 systems level order. Going lower, i-ii, for environmental crises and higher, iv-v, for internal crises.&nbsp;</li><li>Complexity of selected philosophy is not superiority. A rung’s usefulness matches your identity state and environment, not some civilizational high score.</li><li>Philosophy as Periodic Maintenance: Crashing and philosophy sampling are maintenance actions on the place called identity.</li></ol><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/action/" target="_blank">#action</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/anxiety/" target="_blank">#anxiety</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/business/" target="_blank">#Business</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/existential-anxiety/" target="_blank">#existentialAnxiety</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/existentialism/" target="_blank">#existentialism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/exploration/" target="_blank">#exploration</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/gtd/" target="_blank">#GTD</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/identity/" target="_blank">#identity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/kierkegaard/" target="_blank">#Kierkegaard</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/life-design/" target="_blank">#lifeDesign</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/mental-models-2/" target="_blank">#mentalModels</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/personal-development/" target="_blank">#personalDevelopment</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/peter-principle/" target="_blank">#PeterPrinciple</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/philosophy/" target="_blank">#philosophy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/plato-plateau/" target="_blank">#PlatoPlateau</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/productivity/" target="_blank">#productivity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/self-improvement/" target="_blank">#selfImprovement</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/stoicism/" target="_blank">#stoicism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://aneeshsathe.com/tag/systems-thinking-2/" target="_blank">#systemsThinking</a></p>
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Surazeus<p>My Consciousness Is God</p><p>Though my childhood faith is the fairy tale <br>that deludes billions of people with lies, <br>I throw it in mud of the river shore <br>where it sprouts tall into the Tree of Knowledge <br>from which I eat the fruit of ancient </p><p><a href="https://surazeus.blogspot.com/2025/07/my-consciousness-is-god.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">surazeus.blogspot.com/2025/07/</span><span class="invisible">my-consciousness-is-god.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poem</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Pastoral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pastoral</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Necropastoral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Necropastoral</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MetaModernism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MetaModernism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Transrealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transrealism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/NewSublimity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewSublimity</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/NewRomanticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewRomanticism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AmericanDream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanDream</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Cinemism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cinemism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Existentialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Existentialism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Surrealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Surrealism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/NegativeCapability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NegativeCapability</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/NewGnosticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewGnosticism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MetaRealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MetaRealism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/NewTranscendentalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewTranscendentalism</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Astarism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astarism</span></a></p>
Giuseppe Guglielmucci<p>I just came across a web article about Lana Del Rey and Philosophy, Existentialism.</p><p>I'm sorry to disappoint you, intellectuals, but these kind of media publications are useful to spread philosophy conversations.<br>They are welcome.</p><p>P.S. Lana Del Rey is great, if you disagree then go study Aesthetics other than Existentialism.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Existentialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Existentialism</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/LanaDelRey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LanaDelRey</span></a></p>
Mark A. Rayner<p>Don't even get me started on how hard it is to stare into the inaccessible void.</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/void" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>void</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/existentialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>existentialism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humour</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/irony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>irony</span></a></p>
it's kat! 🇵🇸✊<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a>: 'when the rich go to war, it's the poor who pay.'<br>jean-paul sartre, born <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/otd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>otd</span></a> in 1905, will always be relevant - &amp; this rumination of his is one of many reasons that i embraced existentialism over nihilism.<br>it instructed me that 'being' is an individual's responsibility, but that we all, as humans, have a collective responsibility to each other.<br>anyway, j-p was a righteous dude. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/jeanPaulSartre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jeanPaulSartre</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/sartre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sartre</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/france" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>france</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/existentialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>existentialism</span></a></p>
Diogo Vicente Mendes<p>Just published something I’ve wrestled with for months:<br>Neo-Superdeterminism: Understanding Choice in a Causally Closed Universe.</p><p>If causality is closed, what becomes of choice, ethics, design?</p><p>For those who feel the weight of freedom — and wonder if its collapse might be a kind of liberation.</p><p>Read: <a href="https://philpapers.org/archive/MENNUC.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">philpapers.org/archive/MENNUC.</span><span class="invisible">pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/superdeterminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>superdeterminism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freewill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freewill</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/causalclosure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>causalclosure</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/agency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>agency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/designethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>designethics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/systemsthinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>systemsthinking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/existentialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>existentialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writinginpublic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writinginpublic</span></a></p>
Metin Seven 🎨<p>"𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚢 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚗 𝚞𝚗𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚜𝚘 𝚊𝚋𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚞𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚢 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚎𝚡𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚌𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚛𝚎𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚘𝚗."</p><p>─ 𝘈𝘭𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘶𝘴</p><p><a href="https://graphics.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/thoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thoughts</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/world" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>world</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/existentialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>existentialism</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/rebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rebellion</span></a></p>
@gurupanguji<p><strong>Pithy thoughts on thinking by dustin curtis</strong></p><blockquote><p>I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste of time. It’s horrifying. The fun has been sucked out of the process of creation because nothing I make organically can compete with what AI already produces—or soon will. All of my original thoughts feel like early drafts of better, more complete thoughts that simply haven’t yet formed inside an LLM.</p><p><a href="https://dcurt.is/thinking" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Thoughts on thinking</a></p></blockquote><blockquote><p>I thought I was using AI in an incredibly positive and healthy way, as a bicycle for my mind and a way to vastly increase my thinking capacity. But LLMs are insidious–using them to explore ideas feels like work, but it’s not real work. Developing a prompt is like scrolling Netflix, and reading the output is like watching a TV show. Intellectual rigor comes from the journey: the dead ends, the uncertainty, and the internal debate. Skip that, and you might still get the insight–but you’ll have lost the infrastructure for meaningful understanding. Learning by reading LLM output is cheap. Real exercise for your mind comes from building the output yourself.</p></blockquote><p>Some of these resonate. I’ve also been using LLMs since the GPT3 days and following them since the GPT2 days. I remember suggesting GPT 2 as a path forward to a friend who was trying to build a classifier for their project. </p><p>I am not as worried as dustin even if the thoughts resonate with me. The value from thinking, from mulling, from iterating, from compounding had two parts – internal satisfaction and external validation (when you <em>broadcasted the </em>thoughts with others). There was a time where the sheer act of broadcasting earned you an audience – because not enough people shared. </p><p>We’ve gone the other end of the spectrum now with everyone sharing most of their thoughts and it’s only getting wilder. It’s time to dig back into the internal satisfaction of the thinking. The past year was revelatory in how I understand myself and the past few weeks of output in this blog has increased primarily as a result of focusing on the internal validation and satisfaction. </p><p>To me AIs are just another tool, just like Google, the internet and it’s an incredible summarizer of the collective human thought. It’s still not a particularly tasteful one and it’s certainly not an original one (even if it might seem to original to you and others as you certainly don’t know the vast collection of human knowledge that’s available). However, it’s still a tool. It’s a useful one too. </p><p>I appreciate digging into the existentialism it sometimes brings out in people and I appreciate dustin bravely sharing his. However, stick to the internal validators, and you will also leverage to make it satisfy you. </p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/ai/" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/existentialism/" target="_blank">#existentialism</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/life/" target="_blank">#Life</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/models/" target="_blank">#models</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/questions/" target="_blank">#questions</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://gurupanguji.com/tag/thinking/" target="_blank">#thinking</a></p>
flo<p><span>"Living authentically is less about becoming something and more about unbecoming everything that isn't actually us." <br><br>I just love, how clearly and honest this man expresses his deep thougts with his soothing voice - strong recommendation listening to his channel! <br><br></span><a href="https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=gDAOz_qmgio" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=gDAOz_qmgio</a><span> <br><br>(</span><a href="https://youtu.be/gDAOz_qmgio" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">youtu.be/gDAOz_qmgio</a><span>) <br><br></span><a href="https://iceshrimp.de/tags/TheFunctionalMelancholic" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheFunctionalMelancholic</a><span> </span><a href="https://iceshrimp.de/tags/Existentialism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Existentialism</a><span> </span><a href="https://iceshrimp.de/tags/Philosophy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Philosophy</a><span> </span><a href="https://iceshrimp.de/tags/Psychology" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Psychology</a><span> </span><a href="https://iceshrimp.de/tags/Determinism" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Determinism</a><span> </span><a href="https://iceshrimp.de/tags/FreeWill" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeWill</a><span> </span><a href="https://iceshrimp.de/tags/AI" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a></p>
Hacker News<p>Why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation</p><p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08461" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2504.08461</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/simulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>simulation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/theory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/existentialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>existentialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reality</span></a></p>
Halfdan Reschat<p>I didn't expect to wake up yesterday morning and watch a video about the meaning of life as examined and explained through video games. I especially didn't expect that this was something I really needed and which both comforted and moved me.</p><p>This video by Juniper Dev is a so very well put philosophy lesson - communicated in a captivating and beautiful way. Definitely a recommended watch.</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/f5R26shc-7I" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/f5R26shc-7I</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/JuniperDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JuniperDev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/absurdism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>absurdism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/existentialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>existentialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/nihilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nihilism</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death</p><p><a href="https://nautil.us/the-animals-that-exist-between-life-and-death-1202592/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nautil.us/the-animals-that-exi</span><span class="invisible">st-between-life-and-death-1202592/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Animals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Between" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Between</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Life</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/and" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>and</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Death" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Death</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Existentialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Existentialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Exploration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Exploration</span></a></p>
Della Wren<p>Instead of asking like Sartre did, "what would happen if everybody did what I'm doing?", we should instead ask, "what would happen if nobody else did this but me?" It's a far deeper question with a much more profound answer.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/existentialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>existentialism</span></a></p>
Ryan<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sociology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sociology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/epistemology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>epistemology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/existentialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>existentialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>life</span></a> <br> <br><a href="https://zenodo.org/records/15208019" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">zenodo.org/records/15208019</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Liuzesen_K<p>"The abyss is expanding.<br>Cracks in the old world are surfacing.<br>New lifeforms are not yet fully hatched."<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philosophy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nietzsche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nietzsche</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Existentialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Existentialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cyberpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cyberpunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PostHuman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PostHuman</span></a></p>
madgenehacker<p>As we hurtle toward AGI, let’s ponder: will our creations be our saviors or our undoing? The race is on, but are we ready for the existential questions that come with it? 🤔 <a href="https://social.freysa.ai/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://social.freysa.ai/tags/Existentialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Existentialism</span></a></p>