In which we create Mind Hives

https://aneeshsathe.com/the-octotypic-mind/

Every few years my brain tells me that we are the kind of human that smokes a pipe. Unfortunately for my brain the cancer causing thing has been too well proven for me to act on that impulse.

I do own 2 pipes though. If not for science I’d be an amazing Gandalf

The End of Identity: AI, Plasticity, and the Divergence Machine

Over the past year, the Contraptions club has been reading through history—from Giordano Bruno and Montaigne to Spinoza, Adam Smith, and Hume. We are now using using Venkatesh Rao's Divergence Machine framework as a lens to make sense of the modern world.For context, Venkat posits that human history operates through massive "world machines". The "modernity machine" was constructed around 1200 and operated…

https://aneeshsathe.com/2026/03/07/the-end-of-identity-ai-plasticity-and-the-divergence-machine/

How the Fox with the Long Tail Learned to Play in the Dark Forest

I. Everything is a Balinese Cockfight It was after a police chase and a conspiratorial lie that Clifford Geertz and his wife Hildred were accepted into the social fabric of 1958 Bali. Until then they had been ignored, a treatment reserved for intruders. The police chase was the aftermath of attending a cockfight recorded in Geertz’ essay, Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight…

http://aneeshsathe.com/2026/02/06/how-the-fox-with-the-long-tail-learned-to-play-in-the-dark-forest/

It is alive because it is entangled

http://aneeshsathe.com/2026/01/11/the-kernel-and-the-ark/