‘In order to reconquer the machine and subdue it to human purposes, one must first understand and assimilate it’
Advancing a holistic, historical and heterodox understanding of how civilisation functions and dysfunctions
‘Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.
A heterodox alternative uniting critical theory and systems theory to identify the generative mechanisms of existential risk
‘Adam Smith needs to meet Complexity economics’
Counter-balancing the order and progress narrative of liberal social theory
‘The true pilot must and will be the steerer whether other people like or not the possibility of this union of authority with the steerer’s art’
Modernising a classical thought experiment for the integration of AI agents into sociotechnical systems
‘We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims’.
Introducing the Human Collective Intelligence (HI) Alignment Problem
A collective problem we can collectively solve
Philosophical musings on the megamachine, the metacrisis and metamodern mythos
❝ No one can say how far it is possible for man to advance toward an understanding of the laws of history; but it is evident that only along that path does the possibility of discovering the laws of history lie ❞
— Leo Tolstoy War and Peace
❝ To study the laws of history we must completely change the subject of our observation, must leave aside kings, ministers, and generals, and study the common, infinitesimally small elements by which the masses are moved. No one can say in how far it is possible for man to advance in this way toward an understanding of the laws of history; but it is evident that only along that path does the possibility of discovering the laws of history lie, and that as yet not a millionth part as much mental effort has been applied in this direction by historians as has been devoted to describing the actions of various kings, commanders, and ministers and propounding the historians’ own reflections concerning these actions. ❞