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“On attunement” by Joe Carlsmith


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(Cross-posted from my website. Podcast version here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.

This essay is part of a series that I'm calling "Otherness and control

in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that the individual essays can be read
fairly well on their own, but see
here
for brief summaries of the essays that have been released thus far.)

"You, moon, You, Aleksander, fire of cedar logs.

Waters close over us, a name lasts but an instant.
Not important whether the generations hold us in memory.
Great was that chase with the hounds for the unattainable meaning of the world."

~ Czeslaw Milosz, "Winter"

"Poplars (Autumn)," by Claude Monet (image source

here)

My last

essay
examined a philosophical vibe that I (following others) call "green."
Green is one of the five colors on the Magic the Gathering [...]




The original text contained 19 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:

March 25th, 2024

Source:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/us8cqwudP5sePqWM2/on-attunement

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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