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Thermal Memory
How technological memory affects different layers of civilization
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General-Purpose Technologies as Annealing Agents
Towards a more technology informed theory of social acceleration.
Jan 9
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Work-Hardened Archetypes
Memetic and Mnemonic Archetypes, revisiting sons-of-soil arguments and...Saint Nicholas
Dec 30, 2025
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Carnival Time, Hardness, and the Machines That Process Excess
LLMs as carnival processing machines
Dec 22, 2025
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Manufactured Present
Casino Time, Craft Time and expression of time in risks x consequences
Dec 18, 2025
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Knowledge Chronotopes
AI has no default sense of tempo, but neither does common law or religious texts
Dec 10, 2025
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Devices For The Crafty
Looking at 19th century distinctions between gambling and speculative investment
Dec 5, 2025
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Metabolizing Monsters
Online swarms and social web as unprocessed monsters
Dec 1, 2025
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Long Goodbye
Twentieth century imagery of cars
Nov 22, 2025
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Why Does AI Development Look Like 1980s Software Planning?
Conway's Law and Coase theorem applied to AI
Nov 16, 2025
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Social Web to Royal Machine
Metaphors for LLMs and meatspace as anti-environments
Nov 8, 2025
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Cozyweb Animals
Cozyweb as collective self-regulation in the permaweird
Oct 31, 2025
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