Dubai skyline among clouds courtesy of Vertical DubaiWe’re committed to liberating humanity through innovation More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called “Irish democracy,” the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal, and truculence of millions of ordinary people, than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs. -James C. Scott What kind of person … Continued
Photography by midzz at Deviant Art.Reasons to be skeptical of a UBI, plus a brief sketch of decentralized alternatives Not since the carbon tax has there been a proposal hotter than that of the universal basic income (UBI). Big Tech luminaries such
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Human Fractals and Decentralized Alternatives to a UBI (DISCs) See art by SPCPETEW at Deviant Art Imagine a condition in which we have created our own social safety nets. That is, the safety nets are not created for us by some authority. Through se
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Part one in a series on the convergence of crypto technologies and psychedelics Art by Drunvalo Melchizedek at Psychedelic AdventureAbout a year ago, Joel’s life was a mess. He was overweight. He suffered frequent bouts of depression. And he could
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Can Psychedelic Augmentation Prepare Us for Societies of the Future? “Double Boxed” by teundenouden at Deviant Art What is the difference between a disease and a disposition? And what if there were compounds that were just as effective at changi
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Let’s be honest: We’re set up for a democracy of rubes and that scares us Source: Deviant Art Artist: Oddities by Ernie The coordinated outrage against Cambridge Analytica is brilliant strategy. What better way to neutralize your opposition in a
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Triaxial Weaving by Tim Tyler Weaving Healthy Values Together Beyond Political In-Groups The first instinct for most partisans or ideologues is to dig in one’s heels and cling to a checklist of group-identity criteria. Identification with one’s
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Well, the book anyway. It’s been a while since I’ve written. One reason is I’ve been gearing up for the launch of The Social Singularity. If you’re curious about the book, you can get it and help tweak the Amazon algorithm. If you’d like to
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Dubai skyline among clouds courtesy of Vertical DubaiWe’re committed to liberating humanity through innovation More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called “Irish democracy,” the silent, dogged resistance,
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By Richard Cederfjard at Deviant ArtIdeology Dies One Small Social Experiment at a Time Greetings from the post-ideological era. It’s early still, but what innovators and entrepreneurs are creating right now is about to reorganize society as we kn
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