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a blog by Paul Graham Raven
science fiction / social theory / climate futures / infrastructure / utopian narratology / sometimes cats
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ours is the tragedy of the silent stars
Humans are arguably distinguished from other species by the extent to which we have transcended the temporal limits of natural selection through our capacity to adapt our environment to our needs, rather than the reverse.
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the only animal most philosophers have killed with their own two hands
This is not my first experience of weird coincidence with Perfect Sentences, whose editor I do kind of know, but would not presume to go so far as to claim as a friend.
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sturgeon’s law (slight return)
I think we’re probably past Peak Poptimism already, myself, and driving hard into enantiodromia territory; the headlines are full of it, if you’ve eyes to see with.
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ratio’d
Yesterday was the third anniversary of the founding of Magrathea Futures AB, and while the ratios don’t map exactly, Ganzeer’s lament describes a pattern I really recognise.
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”