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Journal fragments, entry I: humanity organized its own devolution
Somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere, December 25, 2067 “Where were you, my revolutionary friend, when humanity was organizing its own devolution? Did you forget, then, who you were? ” To a certain degree, I think consciousness ended up being a wound for us. You see, there are things I would rather no longer see, but…
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What is the price of humanity fading away in the sciences?
“Use me now, don’t fall behind Together we’ll commodify All the things you’ll ever see Until you can’t believe your eyes All humanity will fade There’s no time to be afraid There is money to be made So keep your worries locked away“ —“Locked Away” In my previous post, I discussed the diminishing interest I…
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Are we willingly losing the ability to create a desirable future?
At my current academic institution, I have observed an interesting new fracture among physicists. As you may expect, theoretical physics, like many other fields in the United States, is not immune to the growing pressure to adopt artificial intelligence, and my own view of it has shifted along that same fracture line over the past…
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Hello world
I am a theoretical physicist working in the US. I was trained to take a messy piece of the subatomic world, strip it down to something calculable, with the motivation of learning something new about Nature from it. It is a beautiful discipline and a long way from everyday life. For some time now, other…