Aether Mug
Aether Mug
Marco Giancotti
Hello! I write on Aether Mug, a weekly blog about a great number of things, like science, philosophy, design, psychology, and Japan—or rather, not about *any* of them in particular, but about the things that connect them all.
Latest Posts
"How Optimists Are Alike"
Retro sci-fi stories and how they can help with Reddit rants
The world is my task list
and a good text editor
Patterns are anti-randomness and thought is made of pattern-stuff
A nitpick and a fable about the world getting more complex than ever
Japanese gitaigo are nuggets of mundane joy
What reminiscing is like without mental imagery
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. —Seneca, Epistolae, LXXI., 3. TL;DR Aether Mug is taking a short holiday next week, and possibly the week after that. What's Going on Inside Marco's Mind - Don't...
On the quandaries of kodawari
What happened when I let an LLM pretend to be me
The synthetic origins of what we consider normal
Another Japanese marvel
Studying a thought process
Take a look at reality for a minute