Critical Signals explores practical and visionary responses to an era of collapses.
Mysteries of mode collapse — LessWrong
Thanks to Ian McKenzie and Nicholas Dupuis, collaborators on a related project, for contributing to the ideas and experiments discussed in this post…
Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come
Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come
Collapse — Oakland Public Library
Collapse — Dallett, Cassandra, — <p>COLLAPSE is a doomed love, temporary, free on bond, haunted by rage and regret, fueled by Hip-Hop beats, and clinging like the remains of the Ghost Ship fire--with the world burning around us, it is time and place, politics and anarchy, connection for the broken.</p><p>Poetry. California Interest.</p>
John Vervaeke: “The Meaning Crisis: Wisdom, Purpose, and the Search for Coherence” - The Great Simplification
The crises that our world is facing seem to be constantly growing, leading to enormous and devastating systemic effects across the globe.
SIGNALIS
A classic survival horror experience set in a dystopian future where humanity has uncovered a dark secret. Unravel a cosmic mystery, escape terrifying creatures, and scavenge an off-world government facility as Elster, a technician Replika searching for her lost dreams.
Ok, when I did my weak signal analysis back in 2014 to identify points of industrialisation (points of war in the peace, war and wonder cycle), I had intelligent agents really kicking off (i.e… | Simon Wardley | 14 comments
Ok, when I did my weak signal analysis back in 2014 to identify points of industrialisation (points of war in the peace, war and wonder cycle), I had intelligent agents really kicking off (i.e. industrialising) circa 2030 to 2035 (we're close but not there yet) and the biological manufacturing elements along with the start of SpimeScript (the really big change that's going to make AI look like chicken feed) circa 2035. This is worth keeping an eye on - https://lnkd.in/eXce8JVj At some point I should run that weak signal analysis again but then again it takes about half a year of effort. Maybe when I'm retired. | 14 comments on LinkedIn
The signal and the noise: why so many predictions fail - but some don't
"Nate Silver's The Signal and the Noise is The Soul of …
Matt Darling (@besttrousers)
“Darling’s thesis is the first compelling explanation I’ve seen for the vibecession…What surprises me, though, is how comparatively little attention this theory has gotten”. I am being silenced.
‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
Why Crisis Resilience Depends on Epistemic Security
If we want to prevent tomorrow’s crises from spiraling out of control, we must recognize epistemic systems as critical infrastructure, writes Elizabeth Seger.
Nicky Case: The Attractors Behind Disasters
Polycrisis - Cascade Institute
The polycrisis program examines how today’s multiple crises are linked and how the polycrisis could create possibilities for positive outcomes.
Wisdom in a World in Crisis: The Counterintuitive Need to Slow Down and Find Spaciousness with Iain McGilchrist
The A.I. Boom and the Spectre of 1929
As some financial leaders fret publicly about the stock market falling to earth, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book recounts the greatest crash of them all.
"the crucial step in crisis engineering is to re-establish a common view which corresponds to reality – to restore sense-making. Once that step has been taken, actually solving the problem becomes a tractable task, and without it nothing is going to work" -- @dsquareddigest.bsky.social
a failure of sense making
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