We are building machines that can talk, draft, diagnose, summarise, and imitate. Each month the interface becomes smoother; each week the latency shrinks. The friction that once shaped our thinking — the tiny deferrals through which thought organises itself — is being polished away. It feels like progress because the response arrives quickly and looks […]
Once you accept that the current crop of wickedness, grift, juvenile cosplay machismo, narcissistic greed and open betrayal of the public is not an aberration but the operating system, something else steps forward with a kind of horrifying slapstick clarity. The whole thing is absurd. Not metaphorically, not as a clever literary flourish, but structurally. […]
Corporations today amass wealth not by absorbing risk, but by exporting it. Their growth model turns liability into external burden—shifting costs onto users, public systems, or future generations—while repackaging the residue as progress. Externality as Architecture Digital platforms are engineered to reward the sensational, the divisive, and the viral. Outrage propagates faster than nuance, not […]
People think rivalries are all heat and noise, but that’s only the surface. Underneath, it’s geometry. Every move has a counter-move, not because leaders are reading each other’s minds, but because the structure leaves them nowhere else to go. Think of it like two people leaning against each other in the dark: take away the […]
The Australian government’s move to install its own ChatGPT instances isn’t foresight—it’s capitulation. It’s not a step toward sovereignty in the age of machine intelligence; it’s bureaucratic cosplay. They’re outsourcing cognition under the illusion of control. The irony is brutal: the very act of delegating thought to generative models is being framed as thought leadership. […]
𝙄𝙣 𝙖 𝙣𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙡: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦. A key takeaway is that while the replication of systems of cultural narrative are the center of gravity, truth itself is (or becomes) incidental to the main game of communications system self-replication. Institutional “doom scrolling” is a generative method by […]
This “race” may indeed be a descending, dissipative system and entropy dividend as a function of the overall approximation towards the median values that percolate to ascendance through the generally recursive computational processing and validation of billions of pre-existing and manufactured datapoints. Consider, please, and if you will, that what this integrated Rube Goldberg machine […]
Psychological factors in risk seem to be commonly unacknowledged in literature and associated organisational practice. There are factors as dimensions or degrees of freedom available to complex (human) organisational systems that seem to endemically predispose them to structure and assert value and utility as an inverse measure of risk. In many ways, these factors derive […]
Facebook’s recent network faux pas and serial fall(s) from grace led to an observation of culture, technology and psychology in a world that is anything other than resilient to change or catastrophic disturbance: Human beings are never quite so happy as when they double down on unsustainable or profoundly fragile and insecure systems that can […]
No discovery without risk, no catharsis without suffering. The absence of presence in future knowledge is always the presence of absence in (and as) experience. No wisdom without pain, indeed, and as for information – no integration (or resonance) without difference (or alienation). Originally written as a comment here.
Context: How Bill Gates’ company TerraPower is building next-generation nuclear power As a general observation, *anything* which measures safety as “analyzed by deaths per unit of electricity generated” is a worry – it is a normative expectation of inevitable fatality. The technical solution described is interesting and certainly shifts the hazards and juggles the entropy […]
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