Photoshop
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Photoshop is a recurring brand in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between August 30, 2020 and May 30, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Download it and check on Paint or Photoshop”; “Learning Photoshop?“. It most often appears alongside 3Blue1Brown, Aella, Alasdair MacIntyre.
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- Category: Brands
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: August 30, 2020
- Last seen: May 30, 2025
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
The top and bottom chess sets in this picture are exactly the same color. Download it and check on Paint or Photoshop if you don't believe me. We use "as different as black and white" to mean obviously, undeniably different. But in fact a slightly different context can confuse our brains so completely that we mistake white for black and vice versa. I believe the same laws of thought apply in the frontal lobe as in the visual cortex. The same forces that transform gray chess sets to white or black, outside our conscious control or comprehension, influence how we think about policies, coalitions, and principles, making them appear self-evidently good or viciously evil. I think this is the century where we'll either learn to understand and deal with our cognitive biases, or else all kill each other.
Consider, instead, just how irrelevant, useless, and impractical many of the things were that you threw yourself into when you were that age. Running a D&D campaign? Modding Half-Life? Learning Photoshop? Designing a fictional language? The real concerns of people run much deeper than what we’re likely to think of when we try to make something “relevant”.