So you had a vacation...But did you succeed in "getting away"?
Yup... It's everywhere. There's no real escape... only illusions that can only be sustained if you have no real memory. So you settle for imaginary money to replace it.
Dominic Sedrani
The affliction of affiction : an addiction to fiction.
So one superpower is trying to cling to destructive and extractionary dogma in a last gasp of despair, and so are the other ones... and they're all taking it personal too.
Geopolitics : The right thing usually isn't the easiest thing
First the location of meetings was easy to agree on, while the topics weren't. And now the topics are easy so the location has to be difficult? Don't forget the start of the problem, because that's the only place that the solution can be found.
Phylosophy
Stockholm + Dopamine dependence = ...
Grand spectacles that do nothing else than temporarily entertain to then accept a lower sense of self, agency and hope. It's a "good" business model and everything is a "deal" then
Petroleum pandemonium
A lot of people walk around dazed and confused, hoping and praying for the best while thinking "But why don't they..." ... and "Why do they..." . So here's a little infomercial about stuff like... reasons.
How well you can point to the next problem
They are pursuing peace all right: wherever it tries to hide, they'll find it and destroy it. The crime ring leaders are having meetings... and you're waiting on their results? When will you learn?
Protean Design
Introducing the protean “Agora-bot”
Better than AGI (that isn’t possible in the currently fantasy experiment anyways). This reality is better than fiction!
Protean Design
Summarize it for me, is a recurring question... hiding as a false sense of control : RD-dronecraft.
The requests for summaries are out of control. And most people and systems just use that to keep reducing whatever's new, until it's so simple it can fit what you feared about anything new anyways.
Phylosophy
The Renaissance is upon us
Let's start with a little history lesson about our future shall we? Here is the generally accepted meaning of that thing called "The Renaissance" and taken from Wikipedia. Because like with each and every word of which we assume we mean the same thing but don&
Phylosophy
Is your programming complete yet? Are you totally "gelatinous" now?
This isn't fiction. It's the actual world you live in today.
Protean Design
Once upon a time...
There were groups of people who understood what was important, and they tried their best to preserve those things, while constantly making things better. They were never anxious, always content and always slept well.
Escaping escapism, Houdini style.
I have to tell you a very painful truth. We are obviously living in the dark ages. But don't let that freak out your mind, because I'm also quite sure you have been feeling that your whole life. (and that makes perfect sense so lean into it)