Architect-turned-writer, founder of Essay Architecture. Building pattern languages, software, anthologies, and community for essayists.
Architect-turned-writer, founder of Essay Architecture. Building pattern languages, software, anthologies, and community for essayists.
Essay Club ↗
Architect-turned-writer, founder of Essay Architecture. Building pattern languages, software, anthologies, and community for essayists.
Architect-turned-writer, founder of Essay Architecture. Building pattern languages, software, anthologies, and community for essayists.
Essay Club ↗
Architect-turned-writer, founder of Essay Architecture. Building pattern languages, software, anthologies, and community for essayists.
A "stabilizing fiction" is when the controller tells a lie to controlled to maintain order and spirit. Think about XMAS as a stabilizing fiction between parents and kids. Think about democracy as a stabilizing fiction between rulers and the ruled.
It feels symbolic that Sam Altman is having his first around the same time an AGI is being born. There is definitely a fiction idea in an AI engineer translating insights from his developing child onto the AI he's building.
What do I want for the next generation? Value family. Cultivate your virtues. Take risks. Find your own religion. Make things. Be involved with civics. Be open minded.