TèchnoSophìa 1.8 - Technē and _Phýsis_: The Origins of the Contract
Measure, model, process, the tension between change and identity, numerical order and combinatorics — this is the genealogy of the contract between technē and phýsis, elements…
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Rustlers Atom 1.5 - Flow Control
TèchnoSophìa 1.6 - The Pythagoreans: The Architecture of Number
For Pythagoras and his followers, number is an ontological principle. Things exist because they have proportion, measure, rhythm.
Rustlers Atom 1.4 - Variables, binding, shadowing, mutability
TèchnoSophìa 1.5 - Parmenides: Being as an Unmoving Constraint
In contrast to Heraclitus, who had made flux and strife the core of his thinking technique for describing reality, Parmenides forcefully affirms that becoming is an illusion,…
TèchnoSophìa 1.4 - Heraclitus: Becoming as Infrastructure
With Heraclitus of Ephesus, the quest for the first principle takes yet another step toward modernity.
Rustlers Atom 1.2 - Scalar Types: Integers, bool, char, Floats
TèchnoSophìa 1.3 - Anaximenes: The Physics of Processes as Proto-Engineering
His fundamental contribution lies in the intuition that the transformations of reality obey gradual processes of rarefaction and condensation.
Rustlers Atom 1.1 - Expressions vs Statements
TèchnoSophìa 1.2 - Anaximander: from measuring to modeling
If Thales transformed the world into a measurable object, his student Anaximander freed thought from the immediate bond of sensible matter, moving from the measurement of the…
Rustlers Atom 0.3 - Cargo
TèchnoSophìa 1.1 - Thales: From Measurement to Control
To control the world, you must first know how to measure it. Traditionally, Thales is considered the first Greek philosopher, the one who initiated the search for sophia, or…
Rustlers Atom 0.2 - Install: rustup and toolchains
Rustlers Atom 0.1 - Set the mindset
Digital Atox
"Dumb" phones, which are the opposite of smartphones, seem to be in vogue.
TèchnoSophìa 0 - Introduction
We are what we can be; therefore, our identity can only be a technological one. Technology is the capacity both to be and to become.
AI has no traditions.
Conservatives and progressives, democrats and republicans, reactionaries and innovators.
Mediated Existence
The swift operational expansion of AI outpaces our current capacity for regulation, posing a significant potential threat.
Plastic Interactions
Observing online conversation with the analytical support of AI can serve as an excellent sociological laboratory.
Ethical Assessment
Speed is the main differentiating factor between technological advancement over the last 1000 years and the last 100.
Overly Convincing Synthetic Reality
Virtualization technologies create immersive and all-encompassing worlds that may either be related to the physical reality or entirely replace it.