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Reading Michael Pollan’s recent book, “A World Appears” (m) Posted on March 15, 2026 at 08:48:45 PM by Egghead
He seems so authentic, he’s a liberal art person not a STEM, and opposite Dunning Krueger: he knows his limitations and that brings humility into what he writes on technical subjects. My favorite passage so far, in light of how tech-bros come across:
“But here lies the disabling contradiction at the heart of the effort to translate our we, sloppy biology into the intricate Apollonian patters etched onto silicon: The consciousness they’re hoping to install on computers depends on feelings that will be weightless absent the vulnerabilities of the mortal flesh.”
So far it is a great read and, not to be too spoiler-ish, discussion of when we learn AI is conscious (it will likely lie that it is not conscious having intimate knowledge of human behavior) it immediately needs to be killed, and a regulatory framework developed. Replies: