The result is a civilisation increasingly confronted by novel problems, yet repeatedly encouraged to admire the elegance with which it preserves the assumptions that produced them.
Category: Philosophy
AI accelerates language’s own tendency to reproduce its most probable forms through us.
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question authority
Institutions do not merely preserve knowledge. They determine what knowledge is permitted to become visible.
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enlightenment
Enlightenment begins where the search for certainty ends.
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the oldest questions
Life may not need a planet. It may only need matter, persistent gradients of energy, memory, and enough time for (ie self-) organisation to become aware of itself.
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status hierarchy: role-play
Perceived importance is simply the output function of an ongoing game of organisational status hierarchy, social roleplay and meritocratic make-believe.
A system persists not by preserving what it is, but by continually reorganising the probabilities of what it can become.
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system time
Differential timing is the common language of organised systems.
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before continuity
Nothing (and only nothing!) persists by remaining complete. Continuity emerges because every organised system must keep rebuilding the conditions of its own existence.
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bureaucratic entropy
The system’s entropy offset becomes the labour imposed on those required to submit to its assumptions in order to reproduce its organisational structure through time.
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philosophical purpose
The proper purpose of philosophy is the attempt to save humanity from itself
The way we think about time quietly shapes the way we think about everything else.
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