TL;DR: A warning that the NZ government is stealthily shifting the nation's "DNA" from collectivism to right-libertarian individualism. Led by the ACT Party, the plan cuts ~9,000 public servants by 2029 to save $2.4 billion, gambling on AI to fill the void. This hollowing out makes the state strictly transactional. I plan to vote for change in five months.
New Zealand is still…
The Slower Fear
There’s a particular kind of fear I don’t think we talk about enough.
Not fear of death in the dramatic sense. Not skeletons and graveyards and existential screaming into the void at 03:00. I mean the quieter version. The slower one. The fear of erosion. Of degradation. Of things slipping away so gradually you only notice once the shape is already gone.
A dead link.
A corrupted…
We can visualize almost all human thinking as variants on cause-effect logic. The worst malfunction confuses instance and essence, reading the instance (specific example) of something as generalized and universal. A related failing is effect-cause logic. This relates mostly to categorical thinking. Confusing the instance and essence is the root of most mistaken categorical identifications; […]
In 1956, Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in a single sitting that begins in 2061, with two drunk engineers asking a room-sized computer whether the universe has to end. The computer can't answer. Neither can the next one, a few centuries later, or the one after that, or the planet-sized intelligence humans consult once they've spread across the galaxy. — Read the rest
The post Asimov's…
The biggest game in town now and any other time is civilization collapse. Every human group self destructs through class warfare of the have-nots versus the haves; it is never the other way around because the haves need nothing the have-nots have. The example of Mouse Utopia shows us the true horror of civilization design: […]
Since the last update we have published a further six papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 30 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 478.
Turning my office's environmental data into verifiable randomness.
Turning my office's environmental data into verifiable randomness.
Turning my office's environmental data into verifiable randomness.
Turning my office's environmental data into verifiable randomness.