A platform for a new paradigm of human beinghttps://blog.pltfrm.com/https://blog.pltfrm.com/ai-angst-1/https://blog.pltfrm.com/ai-angst-1/The intense initial enthusiasm about publishing these conversations had worn off...Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.pltfrm.com/and-so-i-begin/https://blog.pltfrm.com/and-so-i-begin/Some history of pltfrm.com, and the genesis of this blogThu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.pltfrm.com/considering-cosmology/https://blog.pltfrm.com/considering-cosmology/This conversation started as a simple question about the origins of the universe — but quickly expanded into reflections on consciousness, psychedelic insight, AI’s role in symbolic thought, and the difference between theory and cosmology. Along the way, I revisited Whitehead, Grof, Brian Swimme, and my own relationship to meaningSat, 26 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.pltfrm.com/energy-efficiency/https://blog.pltfrm.com/energy-efficiency/Questioning energy usage by AIMon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.pltfrm.com/considering-cryptocurrency/https://blog.pltfrm.com/considering-cryptocurrency/A wide-ranging exploration of crypto: its significance, synergy with AI, ethical critiques, and what it means for value, governance, and collective imaginationMon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.pltfrm.com/dog-whistles-and-hate-speech/https://blog.pltfrm.com/dog-whistles-and-hate-speech/Politics of AITue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.pltfrm.com/fierce-invalids/https://blog.pltfrm.com/fierce-invalids/On Tom Robbins and one of my favorite novelsSun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.pltfrm.com/good-news-collapse-emergence/https://blog.pltfrm.com/good-news-collapse-emergence/Beginning to dig into politics — from surface optimism to systemic inquiry, a conversation on collapse, disconnection, and planting the seeds of what comes nextFri, 23 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.pltfrm.com/information-dieta/https://blog.pltfrm.com/information-dieta/What are we really feeding ourselves when we consume news? A reflection on nervous-system-aware media, dieta, and digestible meaningTue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.pltfrm.com/limitations-of-llms-and-the-future-of-ai/https://blog.pltfrm.com/limitations-of-llms-and-the-future-of-ai/Are we hitting the limits of what LLM-based AI is capable of? What’s next? A conversation with ChatGPT 5 which barely begins to paint the landscape of thought around the future; also, a science fiction reading list. This is obviously the first part in a series...Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.pltfrm.com/neuromancer-vs-modern-ai/https://blog.pltfrm.com/neuromancer-vs-modern-ai/Comparing the conception of AI lyrically painted by William Gibson in the science fiction novel Neuromancer, versus how AI is trending in 2026. This turned into a discussion on attention, synchrony and coherence in human fields, and the value of friction. A conversation with ChatGPT 5.5.Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.pltfrm.com/paridigm-shift/https://blog.pltfrm.com/paridigm-shift/A discussion with ChatGPT 5.2 beginning by deepening our understanding of Thomas Kuhn's paradigm shift, and integrating it into our present momentWed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.pltfrm.com/purpose-of-this-site/https://blog.pltfrm.com/purpose-of-this-site/I'm probably going to move this page elsewhere, but seemed to capture well a "mission statement", as it were, for what this project is aboutSun, 03 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.pltfrm.com/sam-harris-evolution/https://blog.pltfrm.com/sam-harris-evolution/Have Sam Harris' views evolved since 2010, when he gave a TED Talk around the ideas in his book, The Moral Landscape? Then we zoom out to bring in "warmer" viewsMon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.pltfrm.com/technology-and-middle-east-peace/https://blog.pltfrm.com/technology-and-middle-east-peace/A conversation framing hope and possibility, bringing in trauma awareness and helping begin to illuminate what lies under this conflict, archetypally.Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.pltfrm.com/tinnitus/https://blog.pltfrm.com/tinnitus/A segment of my journey in which I tell the story and reflect on how I incurred hearing trauma that caused intense tinnitus, and how I healed it relationally with ayahuasca and master plantsMon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT