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Kei ๐๏ธ
@keikreutler #6581
Writing about how cultural narratives of technology shape what worlds we can build https://keikreutler.net ๐๏ธ
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Last writing stretch on last newsletter of the year, sort of announcing a new project
Tempted to reread Book of the New Sun over the holidays
Visionary rumors > UAPs
Moonshadow last night
New question is if I did 1+2 would you consider subscribing for small monthly amount
New publication out! I have a short text in it. https://x.com/eva__jaeger/status/1867224381992120469
Thinking about scenarios in which your understanding of phenomenon can become more wrong while your desired outcomes become more consistent.
The main lesson from changing cultural winds, especially strong ones, is not the new environment they produce, but that they can and will change again, eventually.
Twitter has massively leveled up to being able to deal truly unforetold levels of psychic damage now
If I were to regularly publish thoughts on Substack, wondering should they be about
1) Memory across technologies
2) "Magic" and technology
3) Strange space weather (news and myths related to the current space weather)
4) Something else
1) Memory across technologies
2) "Magic" and technology
3) Strange space weather (news and myths related to the current space weather)
4) Something else
Itโs better to try to explain trends without using the usual jargon, at least to yourself. A lot of phrases like โaligned incentivesโ get repeated but are in many cases pretty hollow. Itโs good to interrogate what you actually think each time.
Iโve found my people. https://x.com/drmichaellevin/status/1863405733792170493
After finishing this book on memory, I want to try making writing fiction my main vocation. Fingers crossed in public on it.
This is the narrative of this cycle for me, from my 2021 writing.
My crypto 'cycles' are measured by the interesting writing published. So far it hasn't happened.
I appreciate how this essay of mine resurfaces.
While some aspects, including using the term "web 3.0," feel dated, I think it's still directionally correct.
While some aspects, including using the term "web 3.0," feel dated, I think it's still directionally correct.
Iโm not sure if thereโs anything better for me than seeing slanted winter sunlight on mountains.
I want to start something like a referral group chat / reading group for this purpose soon.
I do genuinely miss the small town hall feeling of twitter years ago, where you could post to friends and the adjacent void and interesting ideas would find you. I like Farcaster because my account presence here feels small in that same way, but I think weโre headed toward Balkanization of the internet and dwindling find the others energy no matter what.
Iโm back home and incredibly excited to return to everything Iโm working on. Social media silence commences again.
Making a place is the most future-oriented work Iโve done. Itโs a commitment to a future. Most futures-oriented work I see operates as denial of increasingly shrinking personal optionality, articulated only as negative freedoms.
Freedom, privacy and wellbeing are not a trilemma trade off. Itโs just going to take a decade to change the course.
I graduate today.
Iโve been wondering about the relationship between technological innovation and risk
When are they proportionate and disproportionate? Does innovation always produce symmetrical risks, e.g. the ship always produces the shipwreck?
It obviously canโt be a perfectly proportionate relationship but I wish it could be understood better
What if there was a ViX for technology taking an index of progress and risk indicators? This would likely be doomed by speculative counterfactuals and technological doomers, but it feels like weโre already confronting the shadow of this now
When are they proportionate and disproportionate? Does innovation always produce symmetrical risks, e.g. the ship always produces the shipwreck?
It obviously canโt be a perfectly proportionate relationship but I wish it could be understood better
What if there was a ViX for technology taking an index of progress and risk indicators? This would likely be doomed by speculative counterfactuals and technological doomers, but it feels like weโre already confronting the shadow of this now
I canโt stop thinking about the changes coming from self-driving EVs and how it can reshape quality of life (air, sound, commute, new types of roads) and the relationship between urban and rural culture. I hope we remain on the trajectory to get there.