AI can not save us, but it will facilitate a vast amount of short-term profit. The actual human and environmental cost will be considerable.
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AI isn’t coming to save us
Category: Philosophy
Absence is not a flaw in the structure. Absence is the engine.
What persists is neither order nor entropy, but the organised difference through which each continually transforms the conditions of the other.
A civilisation organised around limitless acquisition on a finite planet turns systemic collapse into a KPI.
The self depends on a membrane of belief separating “me” from the world, though almost everything constructing that “me” comes from elsewhere.
Exploring how relation and difference generate the structures we experience as reality.
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unbalanced: political recursion
Politics is an abstraction that leverages human beings as an extraordinarily effective method of self-propagation.
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outer limits: impredicativity
Every explanation of reality becomes another part of the reality left to explain:
E(R) ∈ R → E(R) ≠ R.
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consciousness and the human world
Symbolic systems presuppose an experiencing subject, yet no symbolic system fully accounts for the existence of experience itself.
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why identity is not as simple as A = A
A is A. The interesting question is how it keeps getting away with it.
A movement founded on representing those with the least power increasingly depends upon support from those with the most.
The objective function of civilisation is not wealth, growth or power. It is the continual reproduction of the conditions that make civilisation itself possible.
Daedelus Kite 