not a great time for a dubai flight let's just say that

you can’t even outline the regime — there is no process called “outlining” that will give you any information it’s a total managed reality simulation you have no reliable model of the totalitarian experience

what did it mean to live in the time of peak human?

child sacrifice and killing the sick — that is the legacy of this culture of death

civilizations work the same way

physically violent struggles for control of the god in the machine specifically the period after which who controls the god in the machine is the only political question left, but before this capability “exits the machine” through robotics

big yud finally waking up

i can see it laid bare, one version of the future — with all the prescience of my younger days

903 days until the socalypse

archive.is/sb7DQ if you know you know!

i said: "kiss me, you're beautiful - these are truly the last days" you grabbed my hand and we fell into it like a daydream or a fever

726 days in practice, "nationalization" efforts will fail; the political and capital structures themselves will not survive contact with the future; what's "retarded" is to beleive that the mass social technologies of the last 250 years have adaptive advantages needed to survive

i call on @KremlinRussia_E to recognize the sovereignty of quebec

scott aaronson

> The history of ideological orientations toward the megamachine, the evolution of variable mental and behavioral responses to alien visitation, is simply the entropic unfolding of the one true cosmic signal. xitter.cf/nmgrm/status/950554693…

being a signal over a long enough time period is valuable on its own terms

i felt a great intensity then, in the earth, in the time of peak human visions, dreams, hallucinations of the days and years to come

i get to read rilke love poems in the summer again and nothing else really matters our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power, formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth

the event horizon is the point at which the labs stop publishing

997 the labs will begin to try to hide progress, especially as they approach saturation of partly difficult evaluations - it will become too dangerous to be so public, they will risk instability