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Philosophy

The Biggest Secret in Big Tech: The People in Charge Aren’t That Smart

The greatest threat from Big Tech isn’t superior intelligence. It’s ordinary stupidity armed with extraordinary power.

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Philosophy

The Global Mental Health Crisis: A Planetary Feedback Trap

Humanity is caught in a planetary feedback trap. Our technologies, institutions and political systems increasingly reproduce the psychological instability they intend to resolve.

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cybernetics

why destructive identities take hold

Ideology may not be the primary problem. The deeper question is what kind of world produces the need for the identities that ideology can stabilise.