March 26, 2026March 30, 2026 by stolzyblog

Gender, Athletic Competition, & AI Chess

Agora, Essays, Generic
AI, competing, controversy, discernment, fairness, fakeness, human drama, intelligence, orthodoxy, robotics, social mania
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A recurring idea from Jaron Lanier (“You Are Not A Gadget” – 2010) goes like this: “It isn’t really a question of whether AI can get smarter than humans. It is more whether humans will collectively (unconsciously) agree to make themselves stupid enough to descend to the same level as artificial intelligence”. I’ve paraphrased but you get the idea. What does this have to do with the social debate over transgender athletes?

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October 15, 2025October 15, 2025 by stolzyblog

Thirty-Five (Nel Mezzo…)

Fiction, Poetry
becoming You, dante, desperation, discernment, divine comedy, introspection, mid-life chaos, narrow road, perception, plodding on, purgatory
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The opening of Dante’s Inferno reads: ‘Nel mezzo del cammino di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura / che la diritta via era smarrita.’ — which could be poetically rendered in English as: “When I had traversed midway on this life’s trail, I woke to myself alone within a shadowed wilderness, for I had lost the right and proper path that never strays.”