Is all language metaphor? 🧐

https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/04/when-everything-is-metaphor-nothing-is/?utm_source=masto

I posted this last night. A follower chimed in. His speciality is anthropology.

Philippe Descola’s framework in Beyond Nature and Culture outlines four ontological regimes:

• Naturalism (the modern Western default)
• Animism
• Totemism
• Analogism

#philosophy #psychology #anthropology #cognitivescience #cognition #worldview #ontology #grammar #metaphor #Lakoff #Wittgenstein #languagegames #blog #podcast #anthropology

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...vielleicht sogar besser als die USA. In seiner Weltanschauung ist alles ein Nullsummenspiel. Gewinnen bedeutet, dass jemand anderes verlieren muss. Der Erfolg Deutschlands widerspricht also seiner eigenen Philosophie."

#Trump #Worldview #Politics

“Ultimately, what makes #Mexistentialism attractive as a #philosophical #worldview is that it vindicates or validates the situated, or circumstantial, historical viewpoint or perspective – it empowers it.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mf2o6sdepc2o

Nearly three weeks have passed since the Tunisian General Labor Union, or UGTT, had originally intended to conduct a nationwide general strike on Jan.

If the UGTT fails to resolve internal disputes and stage an effective national strike, President Saied will likely launch an expanded crackdown that further weakens the powerful labor union and, consequently, its private-sector bargaining power.#Worldview #news
In Tunisia, UGTT Infighting Risks Playing Into President Saied's Hands

"... Go back far enough and every #culture and faith has its own #tradition of respecting the sanctity of here, and not searching for Zion in an elusive ever-distant promised land. In eastern Europe, before the fascist and Stalinist annihilations, the Jewish socialist #LaborBund organized around the yiddish concept of #Doikayt, or “#hereness”. Molly Crabapple, who has written a forthcoming book about this neglected history, defines Doikayt as the right to “fight for freedom and safety in the places where they lived, in defiance of everyone who wanted them dead” – and rather than be forced to flee to safety in Palestine or the United States. Perhaps what is needed is a modern-day universalization of that concept: a commitment to the right to the “hereness” of this particular ailing planet, to these frail bodies, to the right to live in #dignity wherever on the planet we are, even when the inevitable shocks forces us to move. “Hereness” can be portable, free of nationalism, rooted in #solidarity, respectful of #indigenous rights and unbounded by borders. ...
We have reached a choice point, not about whether we are facing #apocalypse but what form it will take. The activist sisters Adrienne Maree and Autumn Brown touched on this recently on their aptly named podcast, How to Survive the End of the World. In this moment, when #endTimes #fascism is waging war on every front, new #alliances are essential. But instead of asking: “Do we all share the same #worldview?” Adrienne urges us to ask: “Is your heart beating and do you plan to live? Then come this way and we will figure out the rest on the other side.” ..."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk

Another blog post on that Thalbach Segen that I wrote about last week -- a "blessing" to be performed by the Sister during the mass. This gives the second half, and an assessment of how she works through spatial acts, equivalences, stacking of salvic things, and completeness articulated through binaries. She is creating whole-world protection for herself. Nifty!

https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com

#16thc #prayer #nuntastic #blog #Research #Histodon #Catholic #WorldView

Horizontal vs. vertical morality
https://www.themonastery.org/training/sermons/on-horizontal-vs-vertical-morality

#morality #ethics #worldview

Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei on the company’s ‘do more with less’ bet

Tech

Anthropic’s ‘do more with less’ bet has kept it at the AI frontier, co-founder Amodei tells CNBC

Published Sat, Jan 3 2026, 8:00 AM EST, Updated Sat, Jan 3 20268:53 AM EST

By MacKenzie Sigalos@KENZIESIGALOS

Key Points

• Anthropic is taking a disciplined approach to spending and algorithmic efficiency while rival OpenAI makes $1.4 trillion in headline compute commitments.
• Daniela Amodei argues the next phase won’t be won by the biggest pre-training runs alone, but by who can deliver the most capability per dollar of compute.
• Heading into 2026, with both labs running as if they could go public while still raising fresh capital, it’s a question of brute-force scale versus efficiency.

See Video: Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei on their ‘do more with less’ bet and the AI race

SAN FRANCISCO — Inside Anthropic headquarters, President and co-founder Daniela Amodei keeps coming back to a phrase that’s become a sort of governing principle for the artificial intelligence startup’s entire strategy: Do more with less.

It’s a direct challenge to the prevailing mood across Silicon Valley, where the biggest labs and their backers are treating scale as destiny.

Firms are raising record sums, locking up chips years in advance, and pouring concrete across the American heartland for data centers in the belief that the company that builds the largest intelligence factory will win.

OpenAI has become the clearest example of that approach.

The company has made roughly $1.4 trillion in headline compute and infrastructure commitments as it works with partners to stand up massive data center campuses and secure next-generation chips at a pace the industry has never seen.

Anthropic’s pitch is that there’s another way through the race, one where disciplined spending, algorithmic efficiency, and smarter deployment can keep you at the frontier without trying to outbuild everyone else.

“I think what we have always aimed to do at Anthropic is be as judicious with the resources that we have while still operating in this space where it’s just a lot of compute,” Amodei told CNBC. “Anthropic has always had a fraction of what our competitors have had in terms of compute and capital, and yet, pretty consistently, we’ve had the most powerful, most performant models for the majority of the past several years.”

See Video: Anthropic bets efficiency can beat brute-force scale in the AI arms race

Daniela Amodei and her brother, Dario Amodei, who is Anthropic’s CEO and a Baidu and Google alumni, helped build the very worldview they’re now betting against.

Dario Amodei was among the researchers who helped popularize the scaling paradigm that has guided the modern model race. It is the strategy that increasing compute, data, model size, and capabilities tends to improve the model in a predictable way.

Editor’s Note: Interesting article on Anthropic, improving the model is exactly the right approach, IMHO. It’s not scale that will win, IMHO. Comments?

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei on the company’s ‘do more with less’ bet

It’s a complex realization. 💡 As much as I believe global conflicts must be resolved by dominant powers, I understand why other nations feel detached. Why carry the weight of conflicts they didn’t create? 🤷‍♂️

There is peace in realizing that outside our bubble, life simply goes on. Leaving with a refreshed perspective.

See you soon, Hamburg! ⚓

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