Daily Page: 2026-02-15
Branded Decade Nickname of the 20’s?
The Intent and Specification Economy
“Now you can build the WRONG THING ⚙️🛠️🤡🌐 at unprecedented speed & scale!”
“The scarce resource in software is not the ability to write code. It’s the ability to define what the code should do.”
— Nate B. Jones
”I wanna’ DESTROY something you THINK you KNOW …"
"Not a FRINGE belief, Not a MISCONCEPTION … “
Inside the Box, Outside the Wire
Tangents: AI Eschatology, Doomerism, and Faith
”Just” An Eternal Reference Frame Perspective
Reminder: A “Tangent,” by Definition, is the Singlar, Unique, Atomic, Most Salient Point that Touches Upon the Circle of the Present Moment
It can't be a TANGENT if it makes no connection whatsoever, subgenius.I’ve been hearing that in various forms from diverse intergenerational doomers for over 60 years; meanwhile, self-driving and self-landing flying cars are rapidly becoming boring, everyday realities. Right now. Today. How is that worse than Edsels and Studebakers, exactly?
What if humans can be people of BOTH implicate AND explicate order understandings?
What if humans can be people of BOTH intuitive, supra-natural, non-symbolic faith and reasoned, rational, materialist science at the same time?
Threat Model: Not the Matrix or Hologram Universe
They/Them: Weaponized Nervous System Hackers and Hijackers
Both Machine and HUMAN (Pretensers, Prompters, Gaslighters, etc.)
In contrast to what Mel says … DON’T let them. Ever.
“Don’t think [and don’t let ANYONE clown you into thinking] this is running away from the world. You’re choosing the version of yourself that exist[s] inside of it.”
— Addie
On Dying Well
Note to self to complete longer work in progress, based upon contemplation and vague recollections of stolen journals that reflected upon Earnest Becker’s Denial of Death from an Eternal Reference Frame perspective.
What kind of culture forbids healthy discussion of such inescapable, empirical truths by deeming the mere mention of the word as suicidal ideation?
A Big Pharma Shareholder Primacy engineered-and-driven culture.
