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Trump Chaos Index
chaos is often used as a means of pushing back. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, trust in global institutions has declined, economic volatility has heightened and populist politicians have seen rampant success. Chaos is the status quo in a volatile cultural climate.
Lore Oxford • Issue #24: It's a chaotic world. We're just living in it (for now)
The basic thesis is that, in the years since the global financial crisis, in response to the weakened legitimacy of global institutions and rising market volatility and political uncertainty, people at all levels of power, and in ever-increasing spheres of life, make use of the logic of financial speculation.
Max Read • Web3 as a "speculative community"
Indefinite Politics
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
“Uncertainty” characterizes a non-deterministic system for which probabilities cannot be assigned to the space of outcomes.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Uncertainty is an acid, corrosive to authority. Once the monopoly on information is lost, so too is our trust. Every presidential statement, every CIA assessment, every investigative report by a great newspaper, suddenly acquired an arbitrary aspect, and seemed grounded in moral predilection rather than intellectual rigor. When proof for and agains... See more
Martin Gurri • The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium
emergent phenomena, ergodicity, radical uncertainty, and computational irreducibility.