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Why the Ego Isn’t an Illusion to Destroy but a System That Lets Reality Cohere
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On constraints, coherence, and why infinite potential isn’t the same as agency. The Persistent Idea There’s an idea that keeps resurfacing for me — partly through reading, partly through experience, and partly through watching how large language models behave when you remove their constraints. It’s this: A self — by…
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I Stopped Ghosting Myself
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Yes, I’m aware the enlightened move would be silence. I’ve decided to publish instead. Hovering For a long time I lived slightly apart from myself. I showed up. I worked. I built things. I parented. I kept everything moving. From the outside, it probably looked fine. But internally, I was…
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Hello, World.
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I had not one, but two existential shocks this week (this article originally posted to SubStack in December 2022 and copied to danielbyrne.net) This wasn’t the “Hello World” article I was planning to write as my first on Substack. In a way though, maybe it is. I had not one…