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Unsustainable Cost of an Automated Economy

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, […]

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Saving the Planet: Growth, Degrowth, Regrowth or…

I spend a lot of time considering abstract, complex and the many aspirationally “real” systems that exist between our ears and upon the surface of our planet. My acquired suspicion in this context is that neither “growth” nor “degrowth” represent sufficiently sophisticated concepts with which to effectively engage this vast and multidimensional problem we are […]