Tag: complex systems

Intelligence, Lost

There is a specific psychological trap that closes once people believe intelligence has been defined. Not improved, not approximated, not extended—but captured. Once intelligence is perceived as a solved object, externalised and perfected elsewhere (in systems, institutions, or machines), the individual cognitive posture changes in a very particular way: curiosity collapses into compliance. This is […]

Tags AGI hype, AI hype, answer culture, anti-curiosity dynamics, attention economy, authority transfer, automation bias, belief hardening, certainty addiction, civilisational cognition, cognitive atrophy, cognitive offloading, cognitive surrender, collective intelligence decline, communication systems, complex systems, compliance over cognition, curiosity collapse, definition trap, entropy and cognition, epistemic authority, epistemic closure, epistemic complacency, epistemic passivity, epistemic risk, field intelligence, finality trap, hype and cognition, illusion of completion, intellectual dependency, intelligence as solved problem, knowledge fetishism, language and cognition, learned helplessness, loss of epistemic tension, metacognition failure, normalisation of stupidity, outsourced thinking, post-critical cognition, psychology of belief, psychology of intelligence, superintelligence myth, synthetic consensus, systems psychology, technocratic authority, thinking as retrieval

Philosophy

Stultification Tsunami

The problem is not stupidity. Stupid ideas, taken individually, are manageable. They can be argued with, filtered, contextualised, ignored, or simply outgrown. Human cultures have always contained vast quantities of nonsense and survived quite well. That is not what is new. What is new is scale. A tsunami is not dangerous because each molecule of […]

Tags AGI hype, AI hype, algorithmic amplification, algorithmic governance, ambient stupidity, attention as power, attention economy, authoritarian drift, automation bias, catastrophic risk, civilizational risk, cognitive overload, cognitive stultification, collapse dynamics, collective cognition, collective stupidity, communication systems, complex systems, control and drift, coordination collapse, coordination failure, cultural phase shift, cybernetics, data poisoning, decision automation, disinformation campaigns, doomscrolling, engagement farming, entropic diffusion, entropy and information, epistemic crisis, epistemic pollution, externalities, feedback loops, field intelligence, global interdependence, herd cognition, high-velocity narratives, identity politics spiral, information hazard, information tsunami, institutional capture, jargon collapse, language networks, learned helplessness, linguistic entropy, LLM hallucinations, low-friction discourse, manufactured consent, manufactured stupidity, memetic warfare, model collapse, moral panic cycles, network effects, normalization of deviance, outrage machine, planetary scale systems, platform capitalism, post-truth politics, propaganda loops, reality distortion field, relational intelligence, runaway dynamics, second-order cybernetics, semantic drift, Shannon entropy, social media addiction, spectacle politics, superintelligence myth, sycophantic AI, synthetic consensus, systemic-fragility, systems theory, technocratic governance, there is no outside, tribal polarization, trust collapse, tsunami of dumb, unpayable costs, viral misinformation

cybernetics

Exclusionary Tactics

I lost a great deal of time mistaking other people’s expectations for responsibilities I was obliged to meet. Not because they were explicit, but because they were ambient. They arrived as tone, as assumption, as the quiet sense that something was already required before any choice was made. Quietly, over years, I volunteered to process […]

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Desire

Post author By G
Post date Dec 28, 2025
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Desire does not move in straight lines. It curves. It sustains itself through distance, delay, and asymmetry, forming a logical orbit rather than a trajectory toward fulfilment. What appears in lived experience as longing or pursuit is not a failure of arrival but the mechanism by which relational systems remain open rather than collapse into […]

Philosophy

Hollow States

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Post date Dec 26, 2025
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No complex system is complete, and none ever settles into final coherence. It persists by operating near its own failure modes, always collapsing toward equilibrium without arriving there. This condition is not exceptional; it is constitutive. Collapse is not what ends systems, but what allows them to reproduce themselves. Systems endure by continuously redistributing error, […]

cybernetics

Merry Griftmas

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Post date Dec 24, 2025
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Across the United States, and increasingly across comparable political systems, authoritarian grift has consolidated with remarkable speed. It is disproportionately financed, protected, and normalised by extreme concentrations of wealth. The alignment is not driven by ideological sophistication, intelligence, or long-term strategy. It is driven by extraction. Ultra-rich actors pursue deregulation, tax minimisation, labour suppression, and […]

Philosophy

Extreme Wealth

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Post date Dec 23, 2025
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Extreme wealth simplifies the world around it, not by insight but by attraction. Certain ideas adhere because they are easy to recognise, easy to repeat, and easy to circulate. They fit branding, reward loyalty, and move smoothly through systems that privilege speed over reflection. In this way an ideological frame consolidates, not because it is […]

Tags #wealth, complex systems, cultural analysis, delayed consequence, detachment, elite ideology, extreme wealth, feedback failure, field effects, gullibility, modern power structures, narcissism, neurosis, political economy, power and insulation, systems thinking, wealth and power critique

cybernetics

Governance as Harmonic Coordination

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Post date Dec 18, 2025
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Governance can be understood as the management of phase relations within an ensemble, not the enforcement of uniform behaviour. In any governed system—social, institutional, technical, or ecological—coherence does not arise from fixing positions or eliminating difference. It arises from partial synchronisation: agents align enough to act collectively while remaining out of phase enough to retain […]

Philosophy

Unsustainable Cost of an Automated Economy

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Post date Dec 14, 2025
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Consider artificial intelligence and capitalism together, not as separate forces but as mutually reinforcing dynamics, where automation becomes the primary mechanism for enforcing scale-dependent profitability. Technologically mediated commercial systems were always likely to converge on something like this. AI is not an aberration. It is a natural extension of a system that prioritises speed, scale, […]

cybernetics

Recursive Tension: Orbit Frame, Logical Orbit, and the Viability of Communication, Culture, and Ecological Systems

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Post date Aug 16, 2025
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Abstract This paper advances a cybernetic account of complex adaptive systems in which coherence is sustained by unresolved tension rather than equilibrium. The orbit frame is introduced as a relational model that represents systems as networks of elastic constraints across gaps that never fully close. Logical orbit is defined as the recursive dynamical process that […]

Philosophy

Personal Data, Privacy and the Normative Ubiquity of Technological Self-Surveillance

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Post date Jun 13, 2021
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An introspective taxonomy of labels and the grammatical order of participatory technology in – and as – systems of knowledge and control has always been the nature, kernel and subjective essence of personal identity. It is difficult to identify a particular inflection point at which this Linnean, categorical game evolved from constructive personal boundary and […]

Tags AI, analytics, complex systems, Complexity, data, ethics, identity, information, intrusion, privacy, surveillance, technology

Philosophy

Homelesness: a “Wicked Problem” of Complexity

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Post date Dec 29, 2019
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Why does homelessness occur and why is it so difficult to find and apply lasting solutions? In a nutshell: Entropy. This is not a rhetorical affectation but as an authentic explanatory and causal explanation. Many socioeconomic problems are complex but within a relatively limited problem “dimensionality” – consider crowd control or public transport. They are […]

Tags complex systems, Complexity, degrees of freedom, dimensionality, economics, entropy, homeless, homelessness, justice, social justice, sociology