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My Journey to the Inevitability of Revolution (opens the original)
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This is essay #15 ins the series The Revolution No One Sees Coming.My series The Revolution No One Sees Coming would be incomplete without a brief account of my personal journey to a conclusion that few others even consider possible, never mind inevitable.Knowledge, awareness, wisdom, how we respond to change--these are not just based in rational thought, they are intuitive, emotional forms of intelligence drawn from our experiences in life and the culture we've lived in as fish in the water, un
What's the Point of AI, Anyway? (opens the original)
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AI is by most accounts either 1) the greatest advance since the wheel, or at least since YouTube and/or 2) the greatest opportunity ever to skim billions or maybe even trillions of dollars in private gains. A third possibility--that AI will generate a destructive tsunami of Anti-Progress unique in human history, catalyzing the deepest, most destructive Global Depression since the Great Depression 97 years ago--was not in the running a few laps ago but is now neck-and-neck with the favorites.This
Cultural Revolution and the Social Contract (opens the original)
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I narrate key points in my post The Outlines of a New Social Contract:
The Outlines of a New Social Contract (opens the original)
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This is essay #14 in the series The Revolution No One Sees Coming. I’m wrapping up this series in the next few Musings Reports. This is a major essay. You might want to refill your beverage.It’s time to sketch the outlines of the new Social Contract that becomes possible as the status quo experiences Model Collapse--a collapse not just of “growth” but of the conceptual models that held up “growth” and
Smug Hypocrisy Invites Nemesis (opens the original)
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Among the many infuriating facets of everyday life, a special corner of Heck is being reserved for the Smug Hypocrisy of America’s elites which manifests along the entire ideological spectrum from Smug Hypocritical Liberal to Smug Hypocritical Conservative.No one runs faster to cut in front of everyone else crowding around the Federal “free money” feeding trough than self-proclaimed “conservative believers in free markets” elbowing aside everyone else to secure their federal tax break, governmen
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