Tag: conflict

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Philosophy

Entangled Vocabularies

General reflection – binary opposition: Most constellations of word pairs, bundled vocabularies and variously symmetrical semantic dichotomies in our linguistic experience represent gradients of difference. This presence of idiomatic antitheses generates ambiguity, uncertainty, confusion, miscommunication. However, we should never just observe the words and the variously transient sociotechnical vocabularies that orbit them. I have been […]

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Philosophy

Horror Vacui, Guru Version

Spirituality more broadly seems to have been seduced by a personality cult that opportunistically misrepresents and all too easily misunderstands messenger and signal as isomorphic with message, quite agnostic of the significance of any particular narrative. This is an elementary projective narcissism, identifying individual with an essentially inarticulable metaphysics of Other and world that is […]

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Alien Anthropology

Censors and Actuators

A totalising political mindset becomes about as self-imprisoned by censorship as it is ever emboldened by it. If it were an unambiguously measurable property, I’d say the damage inflicted upon a nation’s prosperity and sustainable continuity is directly proportional to its self-isolation.

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politics

Ideological Fortresses

Political positions and ideological fortresses are grounded in the need for and dependence upon antitheses. What may be less obvious is that a communications system signal as gradient of ideological difference embodied in adversarial geopolitics is only ever reproduced in and amplified by that competition. Like the ouroboros, it feeds upon the long tail of […]

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Philosophy

Dictatorship

The arc and trajectory of (a) psychosis resonates. An obsessive assertion of and fixation upon deterministic identities and roles both depends upon and further exacerbates the insecurities that drive this whole system. Control, once asserted, almost always and agnostic of context invokes a signal and downstream cascade of entropic consequences that are then further refined, […]

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Philosophy

Artificial Intelligence and Geostrategic Uncertainty

Context: How Might AI Affect the Rise and Fall of Nations? We shall find ourselves entangled in (and as) the self-amplifying adversarial difference, distance and geostrategic dissonance of an orientation towards the accelerating reproduction of the technical methods of our own cultural, cognitive and politically self-validating insecurities. This is a self-referential tesseract of hyper-inflating complexity […]

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Philosophy

An Enigma of Self-Deception: Jokes

The value of a joke as surprise and stochastic, staccato salience in the otherwise smooth flow of narrative experience is a function of the semiotic entropy (as existential) displacement that it both embodies and reveals. Significance and meaning are stored externally to a symbol, globally-distributed in and as the networked “latent space” of all other […]

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politics

Rattling Sabers over the South China Sea

That the incompetent actions of one person can spark a global conflagration is a matter of the utmost absurdity. This indicates a failure of the intellect so rampantly oblivious to consequences as to be rightly-called “remedial”. On a broader scale, just what does the historical record reveal about the catastrophic fate of autocratic systems that […]

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Alien Anthropology

Extraterrestrial Treaty

The first nation to engage in a treaty to leverage a learning relationship with an extraterrestrial civilisation shall likely find themselves so vastly overwhelmed by intelligence, technology and (all associated, downstream) complexity that they might later wish they had simply stayed in a cave sharpening the pointy sticks with which humans are so prone to […]

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politics

Advanced Persistent Trolls

Generative AI is itself an amplification from and product of the kinds of dissonant #entropy that actors engaged in “hack and deceive” are seeking to leverage, even if only transiently or in passing as a function of larger #competitive systems. Advanced Persistent Trolls are themselves likely a temporary #communications systems coefficient, in the longer run. Automation at scale will accelerate far […]

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Philosophy

Conflict, Language, Communication, Technology

While it is inordinately difficult to remain politically agnostic or to detach emotion from remote observation of the grotesque inhumanity and unrepentant criminality of an irredeemable decision to inflict Imperialist war upon any nation, just as it is somewhat difficult not to cast a wry smirk in the general direction of self-disassembling totalitarian aspirations to […]

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communication

Strategic Communication: Countering Deception

An excellent piece of communication on the topic of communication: A spectrum and integrated matrix of regenerative uncertainty is simultaneously: that which compels that we must communicate, and, that which inevitably arises from communication. That we find ourselves somewhat lashed to the mast of this self-propagating vortex of competitive differences and ideological distances should really […]