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cybernetics

second-order phase locking

Second-order phase locking is what happens when systems stop reacting to reality and start synchronising to their expectations of disruption.

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Philosophy

populism, unmasked

Populism is not an opinion. It is a phase dynamic.

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cybernetics

all swallowed whole

Technology cannot solve itself, because the introspective incompleteness that limits it is a function of the same combinatorial unboundedness that makes it at all possible; spoiler: we humans are similarly and simultaneously bound by identical logic.