Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing…

Artificial Whimsy

Apr 30, 2025

Preamble: Love has always been shaped by risk, friction, and loss. As AI learns to mirror us more perfectly, the greatest loss may not be truth or labor, but love itself. And the courage it demands.

1 Comment

Xianchun Vendler

I love the two charts comparing Plato’s Ladder of Love with the New Ladder of Love.

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