1/ I can't get this out of my head because it really feels like everyone is going about their days like those violin players on the Titanic.https://twitter.com/IRHotTakes/status/1121568869074780160 …
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Replying to @generativist
As opposed to when that the world was an unproblematic utopia? Everything is fine. The shrieking fearmongers are the crazy ones.
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Replying to @RealtimeAI
Fearmongers may contribute to the current entropic delirium, but they are not the principle driver. Structurally, there are a lot of things failing — as there always has been. But hyper-optimization has carved out and sold all the slack in graduated tranches. Robustness, lost.
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Replying to @generativist
Systems grow, calcify, and collapse. Think how comparably mild 2008 was and how fast we’ve “recovered”. Still lots of related problems but, remember when that happened 80 years ago and people were starving to death?
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Replying to @RealtimeAI
Yes, that's what I think is the core problem — we keep staving off each crisis with duct tape and never attend to underlying causes. Calcification and growth of rigid systems, simultaneously. But, one morning, the chicken's head does get lopped off.
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Replying to @generativist
Nah, we solve both. But the true underlying causes are implicit memes buried under layers of superficial memes. Religion is currently still bleeding out after Galileo. Nietzsche noticed. Rick and Morty is like, a final thrust. Same thing with a lot of problems.
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(I'm writing a blog post *almost* on this exact debate, albeit slowly. Stay tuned ;))
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