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Free Post examining Nimrod vs. Abraham James Simpkins on cynegetic violence and ontological policing in Gregoire Chamayou's Manhunts (2012).
Free Post examining 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.
Free Post examining 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
Free Post examining Brutality of Life Reading List (12 Books) Earlier this year I summed up the perpetual utilitarian lament: Despite nigh-inestimable progress, the world is pervaded by suffering. An unimaginable amount of suffering. Trying to comprehend it specifically and
Free Post online communities @VCBrags, Viciousness, and Pasquale D'Silva Edit on 2020-12-02: This whole rigmarole rigma-rolled forward. Phew, did it ever. Currently it appears that Pasquale D'Silva was indeed involved, though not the main culprit of @VCBrags. Harassment allegations
Free Post examining Multiplayer Psychosis My friend Beau suggested that I reflect on cyberpunk again, do an issue of Exolymph for old time's sake. I've been pondering the prompt for a while now. The internet
Free Post religion The Katechon Stahlblau, memetics analyst at The Outpost, kindly contributed the following guest post about divinity and the End Times — or the After Times, or whatever grimly liminal indexical you may prefer.
Free Post examining Survivalist Epistemology On the existential politics of sorting through salience signals under uncertainty.
Free Post examining 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
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Free Post examining 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.
