Epistemic status: Interesting as a mechanism and trend, but obviously highly variable over short timescales and ultimately speculative.
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Baudrillard and Interiority
Epistemic Status: I really only did a fairly surface level skim of Baudrillard’s actual work mostly cribbed from secondary sources, so I could very well be misrepresenting core things about what he actually said. On the other hand, Baudrillard really just functions here as a jumping off point into my...
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Taking the Singularity Seriously
Author’s note: More mystical than usual. A vibe rather than a point.
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Understanding Functional Decision Theory as Program Search
Epistemic note: Probably already known or obvious, but this treatment seems clearer to me than the standard treatment in e.g. the FDT paper.
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Preliminary Notes on Colonizing the Universe
Author’s note: Roughly correct as far as I know but I’m not a physicist so there certainly might be mistakes or things that I have missed. Obviously extremely speculative about far-future scenarios, but I think this provides an interesting high level ‘timeline of the far future’ to start thinking through....
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