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Micah Voraritskul's avatar

Aaron. Thanks so much for this, brotha. What a great piece, even as a standalone! Your brain is something else. Imagine what it could have been if you hadn't done all those drugs! :)

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J. Aaron Simmons's avatar

hahahahha! Yep. too much mountain dew as a kid!

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Rome 410 A.D.'s avatar

Dude, this is brilliant. So much intense, layered thinking going on here. So much meat. It's a pretty incredible essay. And it is also painfully, heart-wrenchingly sad. Grateful for your mind.

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J. Aaron Simmons's avatar

So very kind of you to say. Seriously. Much appreciated. I really hope folks love book. I sure do.

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Robert Shewfelt's avatar

Just remember that for your students and for your Senior fans "The given actuality at a certain time is the actuality valid for the generation and the individuals in that generation," The Essential Kierkegaard p.27

Rob Shewfelt

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J. Aaron Simmons's avatar

hahahaha!!!! Yesssssss.

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Jimmy Brougher's avatar

There is something transcendent about how the perfectionless capacity of a child captures and elevates the soul of art at times. To take a master’s work out of the master’s hands and put it into the hands of a novice who has been liberated from the constraints of proficiency is sometimes to set art free to reach its unknown potential. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKhbq8CsLB-/?igsh=ZHU0azVrb3FuZHNx

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Grant's avatar

Unless there is some way to put doubt into AI it will never capture humanity.

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J. Aaron Simmons's avatar

Well said. yeah, I tend to term it "existential risk" but I think we are getting at the same idea of what is essential in the human condition.

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Ken's avatar

That s was great Aaron -thx

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