Robert Gowty
Jul 28, 2024

As someone who loves computers and also spends a lot of time in the forest, singing with the birds, I’m not feeling a need to go anywhere. Heinlein’s axiom that we’re rationalising not ration still holds. For example, the Jan Sixers don’t believe the election to be stolen, they want it to be stolen. Thus, that seven inch device in their pocket is not a rational machine, merely a rationalising machine. Another typical product of human industry, not unlike the bible.

Still, a thoughtful article that highlights some frameworks we might use to think about these things.

Robert Gowty
Robert Gowty

Written by Robert Gowty

Extemporal Explorer. Music, art, fiction, science fiction, culture and technology. Tasmanian Existentialism. Aficionado of the number seven.

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