Satellite Haiku

058: Journeys to Non-Belief

We talk about Shawn’s tenacious cold, the hantavirus outbreak, pandemic insanity, MiLo’s paintings, his upcoming show, and Bob Ross. Then we talk about for an hour about our current state of religious (non)belief and how we got here. Mentioned in this episode Emmanuel Swedenborg, and especially his writings in Divine Love and Wisdom, Divine Providence, and Apocalypse Revealed. Rupert Sheldrake [https://www.sheldrake.org/], and his hypothesis of “morphic resonance” This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com [https://satellitehaiku.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

057: Value in the Doing

We talk about generalists vs specialists, the communications degree, film school then and now, the process vs the product (redux), Disney layoffs, creativity as a temperament, retirement, doomscrolling (hantavirus, ebola, SARS, COVID, and related conspiracy thinking), the Artemis mission (and flat-earthers), Q-Anon, wrong number spam, scamming the scammers, tolerating uncertainty, first world problems. Mentioned in this episode Kicking and Screaming [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113537/] (1995 film) DEEP VZN project [https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-cancels-program-aimed-identifying-potential-pandemic-viruses] to identify potential pandemic viruses Q: Into the Storm [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14215442/] (2021 documentary series) Noel Rhodes / doctordub [https://www.youtube.com/@doctorodub] comedy This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com [https://satellitehaiku.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

056: Layers of Attention

We talk about our podcast as a family artifact, home tech challenges, class reunions, digitizing MiLo’s old film projects, our celebrity doppelgängers, Charlize Theron, synchronicity, George Gurdjieff’s attention exercises, Lebron James and other athletic savants, the magical thinking of children, learning languages, John Vervaeke’s “four ways of knowing,” IQ and the definition of intelligence, Asterix and Obelix, learning disparities in grade school, the Science of Reading, IEPs, California Proposition 13 (property tax reduction) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com [https://satellitehaiku.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

055: Process vs. Product

We talk about mountains, trains, snow, the Donner Party, medical “diseases of opulence,” 80s teen movies, categories of 80s parents, finding jobs during a downturn, AI and the future of jobs, the market for craftsmanship and artisanal goods, hipsters, the process and the product, the Luddites, local vs. global capitalism, AI writing, AI sycophancy, AI psychosis, AI artists, brain hemisphere differences, Internal Family Systems, neurosymbolic AI as an precursor/alternative to LLMs, first world problems. Mentioned in this episode Portlandia: Wilson Artisanal Lightbulbs [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmLp9Mn-5rg] @Husk testing AI on TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@huskistaken] and Sam Altman’s response [https://www.tiktok.com/@huskistaken/video/7624723977222556959] Artists using AI in creative ways: geddyruxpin [https://www.instagram.com/geddyruxpin/?hl=en], Moss Carpet [https://www.instagram.com/mosscarpetart?igsh=NHdmY21vYTZ4YzJq], Bennett Miller [https://gagosian.com/quarterly/2023/05/01/essay-a-wild-wild-wind-bennett-millers-ai-generated-art/] Iain McGilchrist’s work on brain hemisphere differences, and his books: The Master and His Emisary [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300245929/the-master-and-his-emissary/] and The Matter with Things [https://channelmcgilchrist.com/matter-with-things/]. Pixar’s Inside Out [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2096673/] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com [https://satellitehaiku.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]

054: The Constant and the Variant (redux)

MiLo shares an update on his grandbabies and uses that to riff on the constant versus the variant (nature versus nurture). We linger on parenthood for a bit, and then we talk about approaches to human learning, analogous approaches to training AI, Waldorf education, screen use and attention span, ADHD, the purpose of school and different college majors, STEM versus the humanities, the idea of the “collective” (i.e. society) and its obstacles, globalization, “fraternity” versus selfishness, whether selfishness is endemic (constant) or learned (variant), proxy debates in politics, Steven Pinker’s view of human progress, the need for certainty and cognitive closure, religious belief. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit satellitehaiku.substack.com [https://satellitehaiku.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1]