emergent order - Sonya Supposedly

examining/ Dec 2021 /6 min read

Rearview Mirror

I'm never satisfied, but nonetheless I'm at peace.

examining/ Jul 2021 /5 min read

Entropy Notes

Eventually a system will realize a possibility that reduces the subsequent number of possibilities, and so on, until there are no available possibilities that could have this effect.

examining/ Jul 2020 /19 min read

Multiplayer Psychosis

My friend Beau [https://beaugunderson.com/] suggested that I reflect on cyberpunk again, do an issue of Exolymph [https://www.exolymph.news/] for old time's sake. I've been pondering the

examining/ Jun 2020 /7 min read

Impossibility Space

You find yourself on the brink, the cusp, the verge — frozen at the edge of a sheer cliff, peering over it. How discomfiting, to regard that long fall! And yet vertigo beckons. The void

examining/ May 2020 /9 min read

Notes on the Santa Fe Institute

An overview of complexity research enclave the Santa Fe Institute, frequented by luminaries ranging from Murray Gell-Mann to Cormac McCarthy.

just-so stories/ Apr 2020 /4 min read

Civilizational Immune Systems

In a recent call to arms, software magnate Marc Andreessen remarked on widespread inability to respond swiftly, let alone appropriately, to the onset of pandemic: [...] the harsh reality is that it all failed — no