by tfindlay | Oct 14, 2026
There is a lot of discussion these days about AI alignment. Generally speaking, AI alignment is about instilling some kind of conscience in AI agents so they don’t take over the world and kill us all. While the possibility of an AI Armageddon may sound like media hype...
by tfindlay | Sep 13, 2026
I often wonder if there is a growing consensus regarding the ligitimacy of the claim that, despite a long history dominated by the Independent Mindset, the actual nature of existence is one of interdependently existing phenomena. To that end I posed two questions to...
by tfindlay | Aug 17, 2026
Of all the harmful consequences of the Independent Mindset’s assumption of independent existence the idea that each of us is a separate self is the most harmful. This imagined disconnect causes us to treat each other in ways that can be harmful. Instead is seeing one...
by tfindlay | Aug 5, 2026
In 1997, a historian named Neil Howe and his co-author William Strauss published a book called The Fourth Turning. A Substack author who goes by the name of St. Badhon recently published his take on how The Forth Turning relates to today’s crisis and what it says...
by tfindlay | Apr 24, 2026
Culture is the milieu in which we live and breathe. As water is to fish it is the all but transparent environment that pervades nearly every aspect of our lives. Its influence on us is enormous but typically goes unnoticed. We are born into a culture and...
