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
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
Design proposal for the no-brainer social media feature all non-animals deserve
Log entry of a scientific test subject
A Small Web meeting place
On our Virtual Physics and Tunnel Vision
"The difficulty level will increase even more with the new season."
Assumption-digging as ritual
A play over milkshakes
On trying to be "The Invisible Elephant Guy" after one year of Aether Mug
The farther away a situation is from us socially, like a different industry or culture or community, the more puzzling and irrational and crazy—and sometimes evil—it looks. We're dismayed at how people drive in other countries, or at how...