By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026Today's threads (a thread) Inside: The Claude Delusion; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/09/21/s... #Pluralistic 34510
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026The Claude Delusion: What if we're the ones having hallucinations? bsky.app/profile/did:...By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.netOne of the less remarked-upon aspects of atheism is how it changes the way you see sunsets. If you believe in an omnipresent God, then sunsets are one of God's intentional creations, which means that the beautiful colors refracting through the darkling sky were *chosen* to produce that effect. 131
C.M.Pettitt @cmpettitt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Millions of years of evolution make it possible to see a tiger's left eye and perceive there's a complete animal, an ability I'm closest to now when I see a single headlight in the dark. Motorcycle, or car with a headlight out? Narrow object approaching, or wide? 110
Greg Tuck @gregwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026All true, but I think that experience of intentionality is not just of the artist's thought, but body. When we look at a a painting we 'see' someone else's 'seeing', we understand we inhabit a shared visible/tangible world where their embodied perceptual being literally 'makes sense' to ours. 020
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