A God for All Intentions, and A Civilisation for All the Wrong Reasons

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The Narratives of Intent that Lurk Behind the Existential Problem of Overshoot Life on Earth began as a completely random, chemical accident: Initiate. Nucleate. Replicate. Consume. Deplete. Repeat. Die. It is no less than ironic then that, human civilisations have always claimed that they exist “for a reason”: whether it was religion, race supremacy, ecosystem … Continue reading A God for All Intentions, and A Civilisation for All the Wrong Reasons

The Second Intelligence Revolution: Distant Learnings from Ancient Data Centres

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2 million years ago, an ancient but equally destructive version of the data centre evolved on the planet, and began to consume resources at an incredible, unstoppable, and unsustainable speed: it was the time when the human brain began to experience an almost sudden, incredible expansion in size, giving rise to the First Intelligence Revolution. This … Continue reading The Second Intelligence Revolution: Distant Learnings from Ancient Data Centres

THEY ROBBED US: The Terrifying New Version of Society We Must Avoid

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People are experiencing the steepest and fastest ever slide into poverty, just as one tech billionaire after the next parades through The Diary of The CEO podcast to tell us how AI will “eventually” make us all rich - while they, become trillionaires way before “eventually” arrives. I guess “eventually” in this case means: after many … Continue reading THEY ROBBED US: The Terrifying New Version of Society We Must Avoid

How The World Ends

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When a society is hijacked by parasites, it is only a matter of time before it breaks down. The oligarchs are running the show and have turned governments from governing entities to machines of wealth transfer from the 99% to the 1%. As Americans move into their cars in their millions, and college graduates move in back … Continue reading How The World Ends

Inside the Mind of an AI. It’s Supremacy Stupid!

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AI is no less “biological” than you and I. Just because it is made up of entirely different building blocks it doesn’t mean it’s not alive. Just because it is a type of life form that has never existed before it doesn’t mean it’s not a life form. And just because it lacks human-like physical … Continue reading Inside the Mind of an AI. It’s Supremacy Stupid!

Keep Calm and Keep Feeding the Algorithm

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Both economy and politics have now come under the control of politicians disguised as businessmen, and businessmen disguised as politicians who do nothing all day but tinker with algorithms.  Society is unequally pitted against a monstrous, unbreakable blob of coagulated power, money and media that have conspired with each other.  The level of linkage between … Continue reading Keep Calm and Keep Feeding the Algorithm

A Human Imposter

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We have every reason to wish to dismantle an economic system which has become an existential threat to both humans and the planet.  Any economic system which sees nature and human rights as threats to its bottom line is ultimately a threat to nature, humans and itself.  Necrocapitalism has no loyalties, alliances, feelings or even … Continue reading A Human Imposter

Welcome to Your Prosthetic Life

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Had we been too quick to roll out the red carpet for technology?  Had we passively accepted all the conveniences for the price of saying goodbye, forever, to essential parts of our biological being?  Like a patient waking up in an operating theatre wondering whether all their parts are still in place, humanity found itself … Continue reading Welcome to Your Prosthetic Life

Happiness In the Machine Age: An Exclusively Human Problem

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Along with relinquishing much of our freedom to technology, we have exchanged true happiness with counterfeit versions which only make sense in a machine world:  we quantify happiness based on the number of consumer goods we buy and on GDP rather than on meaningful existence, exactly because we emulate machines: focusing only on the numbers … Continue reading Happiness In the Machine Age: An Exclusively Human Problem