The greatest threat from Big Tech isn’t superior intelligence. It’s ordinary stupidity armed with extraordinary power.
Category: Philosophy
Technocratic civilisation maintains its continuity through repeated technical discontinuity, and its security through the management of insecurity.
Civilisation has made its own destruction so profitable that its survival now constitutes a threat to the economy.
Our political and commercial systems profit from the crises they perpetuate, rendering meaningful dissent unintelligible and civilisational failure commercially indispensable.
From social media and human psychology to Gaia and cosmic self-regulation, an exploration of identity, feedback, emergence and the illusion of control.
What if immortality is not living forever, but something more fundamental? An exploration of consciousness, logical incompleteness, spiritual existence and the possibility that death is essential to life.
Technology at scale preferentially industrialises the parts of human nature that are easiest to measure, repeat, monetise, automate, and weaponise. Those parts are rarely our best ones.
Le populisme ne dépend pas uniquement de ceux qui l’exploitent. Les systèmes de communication favorisent déjà les mécanismes qui amplifient la division, la défiance et l’instabilité politique.
How engagement incentives, selective censorship and data extraction weaken cooperation, and why peace depends on changing what our communications systems reward.
As the world approaches catastrophic conflict, wealth and power remain invested in preserving the arrangements driving instability. Asking for peace has become almost absurd, while preparing for destruction is considered perfectly sensible.
We have spent billions of years becoming what we are, yet our political and economic systems increasingly reward the destruction of the complex relationships that sustain us. What we stand to lose is beyond calculation, and the tragedy is how unnecessary so much of it is.
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How it all ends
Billions of years of planetary evolution, and here we are, contemplating our own self-destruction, along with much of the living world, in pursuit of wealth, power and other elaborate fictions we have mistaken for necessities.
