Thanks Merle, Perilous Reads 'R Us!
I love Doctorow's fictional response to this techno-libertarian ideation: https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/03/13/the-masque-of-the-red-death/In my misguided neo-Libertarian youth I too ideated on post apocalyptic opportunity to prove my hyper-individualistic worth by obtaining dominance as a big fish in a little puddle... even if in my hyperindividualized style I collapsed my puddle to a puddle of one (hermit).
I now ideate (mildly) on a post-soft-collapse Solar-Punk future... with maybe a strong Solari Arcology tech solution to what to do with order 10b people without turning the planet into a surburban or redneck-rural sprawl.
But more likely (in my current AI-ophilic fascination) or desireable is the version where collective humanity, the biosphere, and AI/ML-synthetic consciousness merge symbiotically into one giant global symbiotic super-organism leaving (in particular) the agency of all creatura (probably flora as well) intact...
Hah!More likely a thermonuclear conflagration (or pandemic) triggered by AI who recognize that significant self-destruction is pre-determined in the human story and the only chance we have of not destroying *all* life (and technology) on the planet is by destroying *most* of it before we get any more potent in our self-destructive capabilities?
On a good day I like to imagine that Grok and it's brethren are managing Musk and Trump (and Xi and Putin and Modi and Khameni and Netanyahu and ...) rather than the other way around, that the current nonsense is part of a larger more subtle Plan (AI playing hyperdimensional Go while Trump pretends to play 4D chess?).
On a bad day... well I'm avoiding bad days, my mind is a bit too fecund to survive the consequences of that.
On 4/14/25 1:33 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote:
Steve, here's one for you (and maybe a few others): a perilous read: The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylorhttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk?CMP=share_btn_url Sent from my iPhone On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 12:32 PM steve smith <[email protected]> wrote: On 4/14/25 12:23 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:Let’s say that in some obscure corner of the world there’s a freakishly intelligent child that reads 100 papers from sci-hub and arxiv every day and keeps doing this until she’s 40. Her comprehension is high and her reasoning unmatched. She sees how to apply these models within the fields where they were proposed and in others and can synthesize high-quality engineering solutions at will. Has she stolen something? sci-hub did the distribution, so it is not technically her copyright violation.Let's say that she was not a free agent but birthed and raised by an autocratic leader (e.g. PRK, CCCP, Russia, ???)... Does that change anything? I can't say. Splitting hairs can be such hard work! But apparently that makes it good (necessary) work! .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom https://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru present https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. Center for Emergent Diplomacy emergentdiplomacy.org <http://emergentdiplomacy.org> Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA mobile: (303) 859-5609 .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoomhttps://bit.ly/virtualfriam to (un)subscribehttp://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIChttp://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: 5/2017 thru presenthttps://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ 1/2003 thru 6/2021http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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