A civilisation increasingly governed by visibility mistakes popularity for substance.
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Technocracy: Addicted to Risk
We have constructed a civilisation in which recognising existential risk has become another reason to continue producing it.
Every attempt to secure one part of the world changes the conditions of security for everyone else. Endlessly.
The probable is a proper subset of the possible. Old habits die hard because viable communication preferentially reproduces patterns that make themselves more likely to recur.
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why identity is not as simple as A = A
A is A. The interesting question is how it keeps getting away with it.
The objective function of civilisation is not wealth, growth or power. It is the continual reproduction of the conditions that make civilisation itself possible.
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dire straits: the economics of delay
Mechanisms created to manage a recurring condition may become dynamically coupled to, and dependent upon, the continued existence of that condition.
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system time
Differential timing is the common language of organised systems.
Communication does not move through organised systems; organised systems emerge from the interference patterns of communication.
What unifies all processes is, quite simply, that they are processes: dynamical, temporal, contingent, and transient.
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bureaucratic entropy
The system’s entropy offset becomes the labour imposed on those required to submit to its assumptions in order to reproduce its organisational structure through time.
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stop making sense
No finite system of distinctions exhausts the relational continuity from which those distinctions arise. Reality exceeds every local logic.
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