Tag: innovation
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On Persona Modification
Transcendental persona modification is a method that I stumbled upon while dabbling in symbolic disassociation and Transcendental Meditation. Though I found it quite effective, I did not stop where I should have and pushed myself to a psychological breaking point that I now have come to regret. Nevertheless, it was through this experience that I…
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On Equitalism
I know capitalism isn’t working for us, and I know communism has failed. Chinese capitalism is just a very aggressive form of socialism, and though it works, it works by virtue of a culture that demands compliance and accepts mediocrity for the majority of the population. One evening I decided to try my hand at…
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On AI Superalignment
Autonomous superintelligence isn’t that far away. In the next decade, we can expect to have a machine that is given agency and is more intelligent than us—a machine that has the capacity to act and the ability to do things beyond our comprehension. This leaves us with a major problem—one of seemingly impossible nature: how…
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On the World
The world is what it is, there ought to be no denying that. A grand chemical reaction, a giant mixer of intentions and powers acting upon each other trying to minimize risk while increasing their powers as much as possible. It’s a grand tapestry of blood, flesh and steel, longing for softness and grace but…
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On Technological Sovereignty
The economy is not an eternal and infallible means of arranging opportunity in society. It crashes, it favors certain groups, it often pigeonholes the majority of the population into a technological feudalist society. Right now so few people can afford housing outright in North America that the “middle class” can no longer reasonably have a…
Jack's New Ethos 