Sparks 👁️
What Žižek advocated for is an example of an idea in political philosophy known as accelerationism. There are a lot of different versions of accelerationism, but the common thread uniting left-wing accelerationists is the notion that the only way to make things better is to make things worse. Accelerationism says that it’s futile to try to oppose... See more
Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey?
“Just as the Black Death gave way to the enlightenment in Europe I was playing with this idea that climate change could give way to the delightenment.”
Tristan Zimmermann
Technology should be a force for good, but we don’t live in a world of wise elders who release it gradually to keep pace with our maturity as a species. Dissonance arises from the desire to believe in technology as a shared human endeavour for the greater good, while knowing that most world-changing technologies are injected into society’s... See more
The Age of Dissonance
The book goes on to suggest a better path to future prosperity, consisting of:
* Eudaimonia: a good life, which is meaningfully rich - with relationships, ideas, emotion, health, fulfilment, great accomplishment and enduring achievement.
* Poeisis: generating new wealth, and multiplying the Common Wealth, as opposed to net-destructive forms of... See more
* Eudaimonia: a good life, which is meaningfully rich - with relationships, ideas, emotion, health, fulfilment, great accomplishment and enduring achievement.
* Poeisis: generating new wealth, and multiplying the Common Wealth, as opposed to net-destructive forms of... See more
Umair Haque • Betterness: Economics for Humans (Kindle Single)
In a world of fast content incentivized by advertising-based attention-hacking business models, being slow and considered is a superpower.
