Unpopular Opinions
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“What Questions and Disrupts”
I have come to the conclusion that what makes us special is our particular capacity for evil. Other animals cause suffering to their own kind or others for food, mating, status, or the defense or acquisition of territory. No other creature causes suffering in other creatures for no reason except to cause suffering. Continue reading
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I Talk with Claude
I am aware that being transparent about my conversations with Claude might result in losing readers. Even losing friends. I have wondered about that at times. But Watermark has always been a place of honesty for me. I am trying to maintain that honesty in my contacts with AI (Ancestral Intelligence). Continue reading
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Hank Green, Artificial Intelligence, & Missoula Montana
Was Hank’s mistake using AI at all? Or was it his totally-in-character honest personal disclosure about it? Does either earn the sort of hot-tempered attacks he is enduring? I say no. Continue reading
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Looking Away
. . . that story does not make sense. Babies can “report their experience” and they do. They do so loudly. Persuasively. The “medical establishment” apparently managed to ignore the screams. How? Were there no women in the room? No parents? Continue reading
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Again
I’ve always liked men. I often like aggressive, intelligent, talented men. They’ve often liked me. There were many of those in the groups I ran. I like Platner. Continue reading

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