Yep. The tension between reality engineering and existential stakes engineering has been a key theme of tech for some years now, though few have recognized it because the latter gets obscured by tech “criticism” and the most visible efforts are reactionary (waldenponding tech) twitter.com/Aelkus/status/
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It hasn’t been explicitly articulated yet, and part of my project is to do so. Roughly, engineering reality requires temporal continuity while stakes involve discontinuous/creative destructive evolutions. Making meaning breaks reality, making reality breaks meaning.
