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cybernetics

technique, technology, tesseract

Many of the largest problems now confronting technologically advanced societies are not failures of engineering, they are consequences of its success.

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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.

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Philosophy

impermanence

There are evenings where the sky itself appears aware of some immense and unspoken sadness, as though the atmosphere has briefly become conscious of time and cannot quite contain the weight of it. Not despair exactly. Not tragedy in the theatrical sense. Something older, quieter, and more pervasive than that. A diffuse melancholy without stable […]