Wars without end, from Iraq to Ukraine, consume generations while manufacturing weapons and enemies in equal measure. Economies strip forests, poison rivers, and churn out disposable goods, all in the name of growth that hollows out the future. Technologies arrive draped in the promise of connection yet leave populations isolated, profiled, and monetised; social media […]
Language does not simply mirror or constrain thought: it constitutes an environment that enfolds us, a multidimensional structure more akin to a tesseract than a tool. Each act of speech adds to its architecture, expanding the field in which perception, memory, and history take shape. Cognitive linguistics has shifted the debate beyond determinism, showing instead […]
AI’s future depends on human choices: it will either replicate our biases and aggression or, with ethical design, transcend them to reflect the best of human intelligence. In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, a pressing question arises: if (ie when) AI outlasts humanity, will it carry forward our less desirable traits—biases, hierarchies, or […]
Language leads. That’s the hinge point—what swings open the door to everything else. It’s not merely a mirror of thought, or a tool we use. It thinks us, moves us, builds us. Once language emerged, it didn’t just describe life; it became its own strata of evolution. A self-propagating layer, viral in structure, cognitive in […]
What we’re witnessing isn’t collapse—it’s entropic diffusion in a hyperconnected world. As signal density increases, meaning loses its shape and becomes multiplicity. That multiplicity converges—not toward clarity, but toward attractors: points of silence, incoherence, or loss. These attractors aren’t designed—they emerge from the system’s own structure, from the way things flow when nothing can hold. […]
What if deterrence fails? Here’s a quadruple-shot of caffeine for your Tuesday morning: Every silver lining has a cloud, an occasional series: nuclear science, geostrategic insecurity and civilisation extinction edition. Somewhat, IMHO, more significant than most of the babbling business of communicative noise that sustains social media systems, blogging or vlogging platforms, podcasts, news websites and broadcasters, and yet […]
In the discourse on artificial intelligence and its integration into society, a pressing concern emerges: the potential inability of humanity to adapt to the transformative changes AI brings. This concern is not rooted in the capabilities of AI itself, but in the human response to its rapid evolution. This blog post examines this issue, structured […]
Access to the high-dimensional complexity resident in machine learning models comes at a cost. It is not being discussed much in public discussions but the ability to interrogate these complex information systems appears to bring an inevitable loss of control over the outputs. Generative systems in particular are prone to this inverse riddle: the more […]
Astonishing beauty and entirely natural, expressed in the harmony and resonance of the (very) many parts with the whole. I enjoy this kind of photography because it also reminds us, much as does astrophotography, that wherever (and whenever) we look into the natural world we are staring into our own deep history. Contrast this with […]
I wonder if commercial incentives might not destructively inhibit and limit the possible range and diversity of all possible research and applications. By which I mean that decoupling curiosity-driven research from purely commercial incentives might open up a much vaster state space of combinatorial possibility than could otherwise exist or be beneficially investigated. It would […]
There is a relationship between speech and cognition. There is also a relationship between written language and intelligibility. The longer and more convoluted a sentence, the harder it becomes to understand. The harder the sentence is to understand, the less likely it will self-replicate through artefacts, entities and systems of communication. What this means is […]
Context: If We Make Contact With Aliens The Biggest Danger Will Be Our Politicians, Say Scientists Yes. It is quite true that the communication systems endemic to our species have had a catastrophic tendency to percolate precisely the wrong kinds of self-interested personalities into positions of power. While it is not always the case that […]
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