2016 version is very different
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Haven’t yet plotted my own shit here but it’s mostly in the end-of-history area
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Kinda like how literal morphs into allegorical from the supercyclones area
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I’m big on boundary conditions
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League of frogs needs sub-labels
Oil end-game needs old-economy greenling
I’ve blocked out quite a large Karen-land. Not sure why, but intuition is they’re somehow important
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Oh yeah they’re normalcy reactionaries soul-sucking dementors refusing to acknowledge the Weirding. I’ll put it inside a shrunken manufactured normalcy field some 🤔
Need inflation in there somewhere
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greenling was actually greebling but I like greenling to mean green-washed greebling
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I think the fire mountains extending through oil-endgame boundary should be the great Weirding. Everything to the right is permaweird.
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Hmm need prepping in there somewhere. Just east of culture war detente wall past the mountains probably.
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Proposal accepted
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Billionaire lab is a bunker
Maybe with EA troops standing guard
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For fun I’ll put AI Alignment Church in metamodern desperation far from AI river 😎
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Hmm. Where to put Twitter now? I guess in Karenland since Karen Musk bought it 🤔
Tiktok in Xi land or metamodern? 🤔🤔
This is hard stuff. I just make it look easy. You’re welcome.
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Ah yes! Sinofuturism HSR tunnel from Xi-land to Metamodern. Of course.
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Hmm this is inflation. Belongs with floods and fires I guess? twitter.com/lukebutler/sta
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Hope is JWST. The one unambiguously good new thing we’ve done in the last few years.
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These things take a keystone thing to come together. For me it was zero-knowledge proofs and looming appearance of quantum computing. The map naturally organizes itself around that.
Feels like I’m missing biology somehow. mRNA next to covid? BCI between AI and robots?
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Oh heh manufactured normalcy bubble of Karenland can also represent inflation. Can be a distorted bubble. Costs more and more to keep normalcy going.
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Another difference from 2016 map is there are no landscape-shaping individuals. Permaweird is too hyper complex for individuals to loom large, Big Men or small. The era of Big Men is done. Only name that appears is Xi but he’s only pwned China, not reshaped it
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2016 map had Trump, Bernie, Hillary looming large. The map org was the Thiel 2x2. Bezos, Musk, Thiel had named presences.
2022 map… that sort of thing feels wrong
Might put a harambe motif somewhere though
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Open for comments and additions for a week before I get it into production
Items must be at least potentially world post-historically significant, not just your pet themes
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Oh 2x2 logic is clear:
X: pre-post Weirding,
Y: AI vs crypto ~= commie vs libertarian
Thiel gets a bit of structural credit here too. Half an axis. In 2016 I used his determinate/indeterminate optimist/pessimist 2x2 fully
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Need a way to suggest multiverse/bespoke realities/simulation in a fundamental way. Maybe do a misregistered near-duplicate layer 🤔
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Tempted to do an overarching LOTR theme and make Karenland Mordor. Mt. Doom could be a premium mediocre mall. Not too strict. Loose rings of power vibe.
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In 2016 I explored making a 3d version but it was too hard. Maybe this time…
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End of history temporal overview effect. Restaurant at the end of the universe. Sponsored by blue origin suborbital flights.
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Hmm… triptych like Bosch?
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I cast AI river into a perspective shrink because I think it’s important but not yet clear enough unlike it’s natural dual, crypto. But estuary vs delta is deliberate symbolism.
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Xi land should obv be Celestial Empire of Xi
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Celestial Empire of Xi-Pooh
Though that might get me on a hit list or something and I won’t be able to sell metaverse rights to Hollywood
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