{"id":816,"date":"2026-10-31T06:40:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/benchmarking-james-bridle\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T06:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T06:40:57","slug":"benchmarking-james-bridle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/10\/31\/benchmarking-james-bridle\/","title":{"rendered":"Benchma(r)king \u2013 James Bridle"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What we have here is, quite literally, a chair designed by someone who has read a lot about chairs but never actually sat in one. They know what a chair should look like, what it should do, the mechanics of how one is put together, the physics of holding you up. But they have no embodied experience of the world, no history with chairs or any other object, no physical memory. They don\u2019t know how it feels, not merely to sit in a chair, but to encounter one in the world, to place it among other things in a home, to live with it, to be around it every day as one goes about the mundane business of life. This is the idea of a chair brought to life; but things\u2014objects, beings, relationships\u2014are not mere ideas, and you certainly can\u2019t get every aspect of them from books. The chair is low stakes, but, once again, you wouldn\u2019t want to run a society, or a culture, or a planet this way.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/emergencemagazine.org\/essay\/benchmarking\/\">emergencemagazine.org\/essay\/benchmarking\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we have here is, quite literally, a chair designed by someone who has read a lot about chairs but never actually sat in one. They know what a chair should look like, what it should do, the mechanics of how one is put together, the physics of holding you up. But they have no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,205,31,7,19],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ai","tag-carpentry","tag-concepts","tag-consciousness","tag-knowledge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}