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Everything filed under AI sentience AI sentience Everything filed under consciousness consciousness Everything filed under family family Everything filed under happiness happiness Everything filed under religion religion Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: Perhaps humanity's root trouble is sacrificing life's beauty to totems, races and nations to deny the fact of death Perhaps humanity's root trouble issacrificing life's beauty to totems, racesand nations to deny the fact of death JB James Baldwin — holds since c. 1962–1963 — tap for who they are Same subject: The price of progress in civilization is paid in lost happiness, through a heightened sense of guilt — tap to centre the map on it The price of progress incivilization is paid in losthappiness, through a heightenedsense of guilt SF Sigmund Freud — holds since c. 1930 — tap for who they are Same subject: Understanding that death is nothing to us makes mortal life enjoyable, by taking away the longing for immortality — tap to centre the map on it Understanding that death is nothingto us makes mortal life enjoyable,by taking away the longing forimmortality EP Epicurus — holds since c. 341–270 BCE — tap for who they are Same subject: The problems of contemporary society are fundamentally religious in nature. — tap to centre the map on it The problems of contemporary societyare fundamentally religious innature. Last stated a month ago 2 Sept 2026 AH Ava Huang — holds since 2026-09-02 — tap for who they are Same subject: Even on the highest throne a person is only sitting on their own backside; the finest lives keep to the common human model — tap to centre the map on it Even on the highest throne a personis only sitting on their ownbackside; the finest lives keep tothe common human model MM Michel de Montaigne — holds since c. 1571–1592 — tap for who they are Same subject: Beauty shows that culture is not simply utilitarian, since a lack of beauty is something civilization cannot tolerate — tap to centre the map on it Beauty shows that culture is notsimply utilitarian, since a lack ofbeauty is something civilizationcannot tolerate SF Sigmund Freud — holds since c. 1930 — tap for who they are Same subject: One might say that human happiness is not part of the plan of creation — tap to centre the map on it One might say that human happinessis not part of the plan of creation SF Sigmund Freud — holds since c. 1930 — tap for who they are Same subject: Human self-awareness makes mere survival feel unsatisfying rather than sufficient. — tap to centre the map on it Human self-awareness makes meresurvival feel unsatisfying ratherthan sufficient. Last stated 6 days ago 27 Sept 2026 MP Maria Popova — holds since 2026-09-27 — tap for who they are Same subject: The present age is destroying the beautiful in life — tap to centre the map on it The present age is destroying thebeautiful in life OK Okakura Kakuzō — holds since c. 1906 — tap for who they are Same subject: AI systems are not sentient, and the odds of them being sentient are vanishingly small. — tap to centre the map on it AI systems are not sentient, and theodds of them being sentient arevanishingly small. Last stated a month ago 31 Aug 2026 TC Tyler Cowen — holds since 2026-08-31 — tap for who they are Same subject: An AI's sympathy and a friend's are not the same act: one is a learned pattern about what to say, the other rests on having felt the thing. — tap to centre the map on it An AI's sympathy and a friend's arenot the same act: one is a learnedpattern about what to say, the otherrests on having felt the thing. Last stated 2 months ago 10 Aug 2026 FL Fei-Fei Li — holds since 2026-08-10 — tap for who they are Same subject: Calling an intelligent, self-aware being legal property does not resolve whether it has an interest in freedom. — tap to centre the map on it Calling an intelligent, self-awarebeing legal property does notresolve whether it has an interestin freedom. Last stated 2 months ago 24 Jul 2026 PS Peter Singer — holds since 2026-07-24 — tap for who they are Same subject: A person is best understood as a loose jumble of barely intelligent, looping processes producing only the illusion of coherent subjectivity. — tap to centre the map on it A person is best understood as aloose jumble of barely intelligent,looping processes producing only theillusion of coherent subjectivity. Last stated 2 weeks ago 18 Sept 2026 MW Matt Webb — holds since 2026-09-18 — tap for who they are Same subject: A sense of coherent consciousness arises from experience being compressed into a single thread rather than from the brain's full underlying activity. — tap to centre the map on it A sense of coherent consciousnessarises from experience beingcompressed into a single threadrather than from the brain's fullunderlying activity. Last stated 8 months ago 4 Feb 2026 SW Stephen Wolfram — holds since 2026-02-04 — tap for who they are Same subject: A society that lets its government dictate what experiences a person may have inside their own consciousness cannot call itself free. — tap to centre the map on it A society that lets its governmentdictate what experiences a personmay have inside their ownconsciousness cannot call itselffree. Last stated 2 years ago 16 Oct 2024 GH Graham Hancock — holds since 2024-10-16 — tap for who they are Same subject: A partner's difficult trait becomes tolerable only if their good qualities outweigh it and you don't feel alone dealing with its effects. — tap to centre the map on it A partner's difficult trait becomestolerable only if their goodqualities outweigh it and you don'tfeel alone dealing with its effects. Last stated 2 weeks ago 20 Sept 2026 HN Haley Nahman — holds since 2026-09-20 — tap for who they are Same subject: A world where altruists followed expected-value estimates would be one where nearly all of them helped distant strangers instead of the people around them, and that world would be worse. — tap to centre the map on it A world where altruists followedexpected-value estimates would beone where nearly all of them helpeddistant strangers instead of thepeople around them, and that worldwould be worse. Last stated 15 years ago 18 Aug 2011 HK Holden Karnofsky — holds since 2011-08-18 — tap for who they are Same subject: AI can have a significant positive impact on people's lives — tap to centre the map on it AI can have a significant positiveimpact on people's lives Last stated yesterday 2 Oct 2026 SA Scott Alexander — holds since 2026-10-02 — tap for who they are
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At the centre Perhaps humanity's root trouble is sacrificing life's beauty to totems, races and nations to deny the fact of death Last stated c. 1962–1963 Holds James Baldwin Read this korrent →