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cybernetics

when intelligence becomes inconvenient

We are passing a turning point at which the value of human cleverness becomes actively obscured and wilfully excluded by technocratic over-reach.

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Philosophy

institutional conservatism and the failure of inquiry

The result is a civilisation increasingly confronted by novel problems, yet repeatedly encouraged to admire the elegance with which it preserves the assumptions that produced them.

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systems

frustration with institutional orthodoxy

A system can become so effective at measuring, managing, and reproducing its own internal assumptions that it gradually loses the ability to perceive the external reality those assumptions were originally created to address.

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Philosophy

hemlock smoothie

Universities still teach Socrates, but only rarely entertain the genuine institutional risk that his intellectual integrity signifies.