Entropicana
Persistence is futile.
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Essays
Examination comprises the intersection of observation and exploration.
21 posts
Expensive Taste
Why I don't think AI will kill my job, plus what a writer does at a startup.
What is God?
Immanence, eminence.
Ideograph • creative obligations
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Completing a Creative Project
The art of getting it done.
Rearview Mirror
I'm never satisfied, but nonetheless I'm at peace.
Nimrod vs. Abraham
James Simpkins on cynegetic violence and ontological policing in Gregoire Chamayou's Manhunts (2012).
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.
Spelling
Epistemic status: Making a stab at the ineffable. The ineffable dodges and I miss. Again, argh! It always does that. Oh well, gonna keep stabbing anyway. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey kids, wassup. Wanna talk about magic? '
Notes on Narrative
Assemblage of thoughts about how stories work.
Brutality of Life Reading List (12 Books)
Earlier this year I summed up the perpetual utilitarian lament: > Despite nigh-inestimable progress [https://rootsofprogress.org/smart-rich-and-free], the world is pervaded by suffering. An unimaginable amount of suffering. Trying
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
Thriverism
An exhortation in favor of vim, vigor, and verve.
The Katechon
Stahlblau [https://twitter.com/Stahlblau4], memetics analyst at The Outpost [https://eltipicostahlblau.wordpress.com/], kindly contributed the following guest post about divinity and the End Times — or the After Times, or whatever grimly liminal
Survivalist Epistemology
On the existential politics of sorting through salience signals under uncertainty.
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
Tough Crowds
Engaging with a semi-adversarial audience... from cringe humor to tech recruiters and back!
All you can do is as much as you can.
The two quintessential 2020 moods are laughing so you don't cry and screaming because you're at the end of your rope. It's not shaping up to be a
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.
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
Why Cryptocurrency Matters
Last July, I was talking about Zcash on Twitter, and Josh Grobe asked me this question: Q: what additional utility do cryptos like zcash have vs more traditional transactional methods (Credit Cards)? Interested in
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