"If an LLM generates code that generates meshes, are those meshes AI art or are they procgen" and other stupid exercises in remainder humanism

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Some of the most influential intellectual figures in the American technological right were educated in philosophy, law, and political theory, not STEM. The tech workers dont need to "learn humanities". The humanities need to take an engineering course :/

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Imagine if positivism were false. It'd be so cool. I'd love it if magic were real.

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Some people were making me mad on the internet so I wrote a blog post about it. On the different reasons for people have for being left wing and how people manage the psychological tensions of the fact that they come apart. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

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How many times are we going to go over this: In Dune, the Butlerian Jihad may have intended to destroy thinking machines to “free” humanity, but it accidentally created a brutal, hyper-feudal system that exploited human beings as literal substitutes for technology. It was not an AI-free paradise.

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