A timeline, of sorts
This is my attempt to figure out what happened to get us here. 1996: Rupert Murdoch launches Fox News to support the conservative project of delegitimizing liberal institutions like journalism and go…
Systems Thinking
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AI is becoming normal technology, for better or worse
I was watching the last ever Hard Fork when it hit me: AI isn't just normal technology. All technology is eventually normal, but it starts out new, and new stuff always goes through a process. Unt…
A Strategic Retreat
AI is a...noisy topic. People I am naturally allied with on essentially everything have succumbed to a madness. I need to rewatch Neverending Story, but the situation is very much like The Nothing. T…
You Are Not Immune To Local Consensus
Human beings are prone to mistaking local consensus for global consensus. Most people never notice this process happening because they're never pushed far enough outside consensus to see its edge…