Ugly thoughts
tag > Culture
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No man is an island
"No man is an island,
Entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less,
As well as if a promontory were:
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were.Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee."- John Donne, Meditation XVII, 1624
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"Forgive them, for they know not what they do" - Luke 23:34
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Prediction: As the Cyborg Theocracy takes over power in the years ahead, global focus will shift from Artificial Intelligence to Experimental Theology.
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Vintage Sony advertisement for the Sony D-5 Portable CD Player. Japan used to be THE leader in design futurism not too long ago. What happened?
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For centuries, the essence of great cities was shaped by offline experience: places, walks, noise, presence. Then came online-everything. What’s left barely holds memory.
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Twelve years ago, people were outraged by Snowden’s limited hangout leaks, worried their privacy was eroding. Today, we’ve been conditioned to hand over every bit of data to “the AI” - one of the most intrusive surveillance dragnets in history.
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How to keep a secret
To keep a grand secret, you must build an epistemic firewall that is not just informational, but ontological. It aims to suppress not just knowledge, but the framework through which such knowledge could be interpreted, discussed, or even believed. This isn’t about secrecy, it’s about cognitive weaponization. The secret isn’t contained by denying evidence, but by reframing language, redefining credibility, and contaminating epistemology itself. Over time, the cover-up matures into a self-replicating stable belief-control ecosystem. A strange attractor in the collective belief space. That’s how you preserve a secret in complex social environments: not by hiding it, but by making belief in it structurally impossible.
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Machine learning has become a victim of its own success. Behind the noise of 'breakthroughs,' a dogmatic orthodoxy has hardened, chasing money & fame. Outsiders & out-of-the-box thinking are shunned. The true revolutions will arrive as black swan strikes—from far outside the box
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Steal this idea: AI Labor Displacement Transition Services (B2G, NGO, B2C)
Millions of workers are being displaced by autonomous agents. A specialized service offers rapid retraining, mental health support, and job matching in sectors resistant to full automation.
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"Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests"
By now everyone could be living on a 2-day workweek in fully automated luxury - but instead we’re slaving away at bullshit jobs harder than ever. The game’s rigged.
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Persian architecture was literal art. Modern buildings look like they were designed by spreadsheets. We went from temples for the soul to glass prisons for productivity. If that’s progress, I want a refund.
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Perspective: The 2-day work week is coming faster than anyone’s ready for. The AI economy takeover isn’t just a threat - it’s humanity’s jailbreak.
Cognitive Dissonance for most today:
The more I talk to clients across industries, the more I realize almost no one is taking AI seriously. They treat it like a deluxe word processor, completely missing the seismic shift underway. The disconnect is massive. And time’s running out.
Case in point:
Anthropic submitted their Diffusion Rule recommendations today. From the text:
'Based on current research trajectories, we anticipate that powerful AI technology will be built during this administration, emerging as soon as late 2026 or 2027.'
In this timeframe they anticipate:
