Why AI Can Push You to Make the Wrong Decision at Work. Chatbots help craft emails and act as customer support. Algorithms help banks decide loan eligibility and assist in reviewing job applications. AI is gaining a foothold in many workplaces, aggregating information and helping people make smarter decisions. At least that’s how AI is sold. (more)

TV network. I worked there for a couple years, in finance, at the broadcast center. CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS (more)

The mental practice of acknowledging the uncertainty/risk of every belief or decision or action. (more)

In other words, the criterion of truth is reduced absolutely to the immediate validity of the application... Percy Bridgman's elaboration of Operationalism, the development of Pragmatism which says that a concept is not meaningful unless it can be reduced to a sequence of human actions. http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/r.htm#pragmatism (more)

Kevin Carson and Vinay Gupta hope that Cognitive Dissonance will bring down BigWorld. (more)

Science Fiction Writer and Futurist Karl Schroeder on Digital Self-Sovereignty at OODAcon 2022. Find below a transcript of OODA CEO Matt Devost’s conversation with Schroeder about his book Stealing Worlds and how he integrated his ideas about self-sovereignty into his worldbuilding for the book (more)

Welcome to Viv Games -- Small but Mighty (more)

Culture-accepted cluster of Game Rules. Term often used by Robert Anton Wilson, incl (more)

A kakistocracy (/kækɪˈstɒkrəsi/, /kækɪsˈtɒ-/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.[1]: 54 [2][3] The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistocracy#Usage (more)

Ed Yourdon's new edition of Death March Projects has a chapter on Critical Chain Planning. Excellent ranting about Multi Tasking. (more)

another Christopher Alexander book

This will be the focal page for some linked excerpts of A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander. The scope ranges from room details to Society Design. You can free the full-text by buying the book or going to his site. (Some excerpts are re-worded a bit to directly use WikiNames instead of making those pattern names as redundant labels in the text. So the wording here may be a bit less elegant at times...) There's a strong SmallWorld flavor here. (more)

On Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History. We chose a chronology of IID projects and approaches rather than a deep comparative analysis. (more)

Matt Southey: A Brief History of Accelerationism. “Accelerationism” is a deeply confused term. As a philosophical category, it dates to 2008, and yet it has already become overloaded with conflicting meanings. Depending on the context, it refers to a capitalist ideology, a communist theory of change, and a form of white-nationalist terrorism. (more)

Neo-Reactionary, aka NRx, Dark Enlightenment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

Mark Fisher (11 July 1968 – 13 January 2017), also known under his blogging alias k-punk, was an English writer, music critic, political and cultural theorist, philosopher, and teacher based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. He initially achieved acclaim for his blogging as k-punk in the early 2000s, and was known for his writing on radical politics, music, and popular culture. Fisher published several books, including the unexpected success Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009), and contributed to publications such as The Wire, Fact, New Statesman and Sight & Sound. He was also the co-founder of Zero Books, and later Repeater Books. After years intermittently struggling with depression, Fisher died by suicide in January 2017, shortly before the publication of The Weird and the Eerie (2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fisher

The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) was an experimental cultural theorist collective formed in late 1995 at Warwick University, England[1] and gradually separated from academia until it dissolved in 2003. It garnered reputation for its idiosyncratic and surreal "theory-fiction" which incorporated cyberpunk and Gothic horror, and its work has since had an online cult following related to the rise in popularity of accelerationism. The CCRU are strongly associated with their former leading members, Sadie Plant, Mark Fisher and Nick Land.[2][3] The CCRU's work is characterized by loose, abstract theoretical writing combining elements of cyberpunk and Gothic horror with critical theory, esotericism, numerology and demonology, which often interplay in their deployment of occult systems and surreal narratives.[4] One of the CCRU's predominant ideas is hyperstition, which Nick Land referred to as "the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies" where, by means of esoteric cybernetic principles, certain ideas and beliefs that are initially incomprehensible (akin to superstitions) can covertly circulate through reality and establish cultural feedback loops that then drastically meld society (meme magic?), which they also referred to in total as "cultural production".[5] The CCRU's esoteric numerological cybernetic system for comprehending hyperstition, the Numogram, often appears in their writings alongside its circulatory zones and their respective demons.[4] In addition to drawing inspiration from Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand Plateaus, to which references can be found in the CCRU's writings, the collective drew inspiration from writers including H. P. Lovecraft, William Gibson, J. G. Ballard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Octavia Butler, William S. Burroughs, Carl Jung and various other sources related to critical theory, science fiction, anthropology and nanotechnology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetic_Culture_Research_Unit

Much of the study of memes focuses on groups of memes called meme complexes, or memeplexes. Like the gene complexes found in biology, memeplexes are groups of memes that are often found present in the same individual. Applying the theory of Universal Darwinism, memeplexes group together because memes will copy themselves more successfully when they are "teamed up". Examples include sets of memes like singing and guitar playing, or the Christmas tree and Christmas dinner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memeplex (more)

Triggering a change in the real world (magick) by jiggling people's mindset via meme. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/meme-magic (more)

aka CCRU