Chad Aaron Hall

Acker’s approach to writing was just as radical as her approach to paying the rent. Inspired by a poetry class taught by David Antin in which he instructed students to make poems out of snippets of text they copied from library books, Acker started making longer prose works with this same method. She would lift passages from existing books, make

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That experiment failed. Humanity does not want to be a global hive mind. We are not rational Bayesian updaters who will eventually reach agreement; when we receive the same information, it tends to polarize us rather than unite us. Getting screamed at and insulted by people who disagree with you doesn’t take you out of your filter bubble — it makes... See more

We do everything in our power to build patterns that indicate predictability in our lives. We set up daily routines so we can forecast our days with accuracy. We mark future dates on our calendars with the assumption that we will attend them.

This is our attempt to fight entropy, or to create order out of chaos. It’s our way of organizing the... See more

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