Examining a certain kind of meaning-laden receptivity to the world.
Text version here: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/25/on-attunement
This essay is part of a series I'm calling "Otherness and control in the age of AGI." I'm hoping that individual essays can be read fairly well on their own, but see here for brief text summaries of the essays that have been released thus far: https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/01/02/otherness-and-control-in-the-age-of-agi
(Though: note that I haven't put the summary post on the podcast yet.)