Archive - Monsters, Machines, and Madmen

Why Vico said that history was more true than physics

A brief note about Giambattista Vico's theory of knowledge and science based on a key insight from his Scienza Nuova (New Science)

Jun 7

May 2024

April 2024

March 2024

Elon's brain chip implant is rolling out and the consequences will blow your mind

Here's a concrete example of what I mean when I say people become more like machines as the machines become more life-like

Mar 27

Our silent war with the androids

Are we stalked by inhuman machines living among us? A prescient science fiction author thought so.

Mar 20

The generative AI apocalypse turned out different

Instead of HK tanks and T-800 exoskeletons marching across a sea of human skulls, we got static drowning all meaning an infinite white noise

Mar 13

February 2024

To see clearly with universal indifference

What really happens when you overcome the selfish ego

Feb 14

January 2024

The State of the Newsletter 2024 edition

In which I lay out a modest agenda for the coming year.

Jan 25

December 2023

Put your hands in the air and step away from the online.

About this "Internet" thing everyone's talking about.

Dec 1, 2023

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