I. The style and thrust of theory (especially, but not exclusively on asemic horizon) is in a way of stuttering. There is an awkwardness, a meandering tendency to weave between simple and clear accounts only to come up with what, to overwhelming majorities, must seem like unnecessary complication. What s worse, asemic horizon is, to an [ ]
I. They say the point of washing your windows is so you won t see the glass. This is the grand conceit of critical thinking: to improve the mind is, at the transcendent limit, to make it disappear. But thinking is something that feels more like sharpening, like shaping blunt masses into tools tools that [ ]
(To some extent, this is a part of the Ezra, Huaso and St. Dennis series (I and II, Huaso unchained, Margot Robbie’s legs, Julian.) I. The curious task of economics is to trace out modes of circulation and render them as media. For as much flak as it gets for some presumed physics envy , econ [ ]
I. You know Claude Code is good because suddenly everyone seems annoyed by its restrictions. By contrast, there is only praise for similarly-aimed tools like Cursor and Wind whatever it s called; this means they re either not used for serious projects or by serious people. II. As a child in the 80s I was told [ ]
I. It s a convention of this (dying) genre: a blog as such must reveal a tendency for (and a tendency to indulge in) eye-wandering and light grazing, the logical endpoint of which is the antiepideictic fixed point of procrastination . This fixed endpoint strives to achieve a critique of inaction by bracketing out all doubts (all [ ]
1. There are certain notions asemic horizon holds to be self-evident if only at the cost of irreparably mangling what notion and evidence even mean. A more honest version of this catchy opener is that there are certain theorems we hold to have value in a way that propels (de suyo) the epistemological Noah [ ]
1. Those tarred as the woke right have spent about a week protesting their dissimilarities with the woke left ; these protests have, however, pretty much cemented the idea that their emergent ideology is, indeed, emergent and woke . It wouldn t be counterintuitive to characterize the Right as the thought that imagines itself not to be thought ; [ ]
. ECONOMIC GROWTH: if there was a single phenomenon that could be characterized as emergent , this would be it. Dave Snowden posted something about purpose (or was it strategy? in many ways it doesn t really matter) being an emergent process rather than a north star. The point being that you can t beam whatever makes orgs [ ]
Definite terminality in its quality as definite terminality comes close enough to the process-philosophical notion of singularity that I can t actually tell them apart (at least at this moment in theory development). Terminality is the process by which differentiation is arrested; definite terminality is the attribute of not being able to further differentiate. Classic neurology [ ]
A barely-even-there distinction needs to be drawn between axiom and axiomatics. This distinction is best seen when the axiom hasn t degerminated yet, that is, when it plays the role of a desideratum. Then, desiderics makes itself known as the abstractmost concupiscence that desiderata try their best to infuse with definite terminality. But if an axiom [ ]