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There's a movie based on Stephen K. King's work whose ending depicts a similar scenario. I believe it's called Cell.

I recommend reading this short essay to understand what self-propagating systems are: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-why-th... Here is an expanded version of…

I'm curious to know why you'd say that. I'm asking because I've been prescribed it since 2021 to manage depression and chronic pain from spinal disc herniations. I've had moments o…

Ted Kaczynski, despite his violent activism, had interesting things to say about this in the form of self-propagating systems.

It’s a sane default to label power as evil in a society driven by greed, usury, and capital gain. Power tends to corrupt, particularly when the incentives driving its pursuit or su…

Ted Kaczynski shared a similar view, but he would’ve added that these technological artefacts or amenities have major de-humanizing effects.

I don't disagree. Unfortunately, I cannot edit the comment anymore.

Not a useful analogy because nihilism is a human pursuit, not an OS one. The aggregate history of humanity does have meaning; it embodies information, cultural transmission, a line…

We know that the current administration functions like a cabal of sex-trafficking mobsters, so none of this is surprising; strong-arming is the norm, not the exception. I expect th…

An antidote to this antiquated and distorted view of Plato can be found in the following book: In Defense of Plato by Ronald B. Levinson.

Sounds like nihilism.

At least Plato did the work in attempting to describe the qualities (of the soul) and structure necessary to erect a just society; the problem is that we have not cultivated the fr…

They will have machines do that for them, curating collections of dissident files that are categorized by various propensities, then proposing among a range of soft to hard interve…

Book 1 of Plato: Republic demonstrates the folly of such thinking.

We're definitely going in the direction of "might is right". The "palantirization" of data stores (not just those for surveillance) is going to be an enabler of the "hard power" yo…

This is really good, thank you for sharing!

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I think they’re waiting for bargain bin deals once the bubble collapses.

They are the proponents of The Great Reset. Here’s an excerpt from a book I read: ‘As Hitler declared in 1934, “The German revolution will be concluded only when the entire German …

There’s a good book that discusses dark patterns in Gambling games, making it easier to appreciate how they extrapolate to other contexts as well. The title of the book is: Addicti…

Sure. When I have a night of poor sleep or anticipate one, I usually take 6 grams of BHB salts in the morning on an empty stomach. You can work your way up to a maximum of 12 grams…

Exogenous ketones (such as BHB salts) are known to help with glymphatic drainage in the brain during sleep. I've used them extensively and have noticed improved sleep with nearly a…

What signals make you so certain that we are in another civil war? Just curious.

Linear Algebra and Geometry by Igor Shafarevich, coupled with Linear Algebra by Friedberg, Insel, and Spence; the latter has great problems to work with, whereas the former is for …

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