“The filter, if there is one, may be not death but sterile power: civilizations that reached outward perfectly and could no longer stay strange enough to go further. The silence, if it is silence, might be the sound of competence that finished itself.”
8 years since @0xOmega. Time to start writing some of this down again.
Against the Finished World:
https://t.co/iO85jc3OMG
First piece: AI. Everyone asks whether it’ll stay under our control. I think the harder question is whether intelligence leaves the future open or finishes it.
“It is therefore quite wrong — and also quite unMarxian — to say, as so many economists do, that capitalist enterprise was one, and technological progress a second, distinct factor… They were essentially one and the same thing…”
— Schumpeter
" Francis Bacon and his Secret Society. An attempt to collect and unite the lost links of a long and strong Chain "
- 1891
- Book by Pott, Henry, Mrs., 1833-1915
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Retrochronically-accessed information inconsistent with timeline coherence will be edited out of phenomenal reality, however much you want to blurt it out.
this was the only communique recovered from the Gray Alien (Xeno cinereus) or “Roswell Grays” Xenowar on exoplanet Wolf 1061c; Ophiuchus constellation.
@SydSteyerhart This is the issue I think about most these days. You’ll notice that the most productive times for thinking are during periods with a variety of different but strongly held religious beliefs. I believe hyperstition offers a way to stimulate thought again after the death of God.