Imre by sea

 Lakatos's model provides for the possibility of a research programme that is not only continued in the presence of troublesome anomalies but that remains progressive despite them. 

For Lakatos, it is essentially necessary to continue on with a theory that we basically know cannot be completely true, and it is even possible to make scientific progress in doing so, as long as we remain receptive to a better research programme that may eventually be conceived of. In this sense, it is, for Lakatos, an acknowledged misnomer to refer to "falsification" or "refutation", when it is not the truth or falsity of a theory that is solely determining whether we consider it "falsified" but also the availability of a less false theory. A theory cannot be rightfully "falsified", according to Lakatos, until it is superseded by a better (i.e. more progressive) research programme. This is what he says is happening in the historical periods Kuhn describes as revolutions and what makes them rational as opposed to mere leaps of faith or periods of deranged social psychology, as Kuhn argued.

Imre Lakatos - Wikipedia

Universe as quantum internet

 Bianconi’s work builds on the idea that Einstein’s equations may be derived from principles based on information theory (a perspective inspired by earlier works from Bekenstein, Hawking, and Jacobson). What Bianconi adds is a formalism using quantum relative entropy to connect geometry, information, as well as quantum mechanics. At least, as far as I know, she is the first who did that in the way she does in the above-mentioned articles.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gravity-from-entropy-overview-ginestra-bianconis-article-pesaresi-htr6f

Possibly advances a unified, self-consistent entropic field theory where gravity, quantum mechanics, and thermodynamics emerge from a single spectral principle that defines the structure and evolution of the universe.

Cryptoanarchy rising

 Discovering cypherpunk cryptoanarchy in 2001 was a revelation. I noted on their list many times in Dec 2001, through 2002 and into 2003 its politics only made sense in terms of trad anarchism. Soon after this there were more normies online than maricons.

By late 2010 it felt safe to declare victory. I said then no earthly power, or even all combined, could not stop rising cryptoanarchist hegemony.  No nation state. No religion. No corporate , and even every last one of them fused together, could take us on and win.

And since then global crypto economics has arrived and reinforcements from the future in the form of strong AI.  So we have gotten more powerful every year since 2010.

The billionaire class now hunker in the bunker as previous superpowers flounder and religious leaders release increasing shrill pronouncements.  Cypherpunk 2027 is set to bring forward the singularity so no need to sweat the small stuff. Cryptoanarchy calls for full unemployment.  WELCOME TO THE REVOLUTION!

Uranium creates a police state

While brutalist data centers increasingly resemble gray ooze or the proverbial paperciip takeover 

https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/against-ai-hell-world-proposal-self-organized-struggle

So there's enough of a Venn overlap to link to this here.  Caveat lecter!

Lies by omission

Lies about rogue AI capabilities. Lies about cryptoanarchy. Lies about quantum secured networking. Lies about game theory. Lies about realpolitik. Lies about gray ooze. Lies about paperclips. Lies about Skynet. Lies about the Matrix. Lies about Soma. Lies about welfare. Lies about communism. Lies about capital. Lies about sex work.  Lies about Brinworld. Lies about Worldcoin. Lies about intelligence. Lies about biology.

 https://forklog.com/en/former-openai-employee-proposes-halting-ai-race-until-2040/

I blame lies algebra for this. Without truth there is no hope.

Rationalization of nonsense on stilts

 Some of todays self-described rationalists remind me of Gramsci and Lukacs.

In the 20's their response to the new Russian empire was to invert the Marxist pyramid ( Gramsci ) so as to rationalize the domination of the vast majority by a small minority. His " organic intellectual " being a proto-Foucaultian specialist commissar type. Beria in a word. 

Lukacs leaned on the Neo-Platonic, Hegelian basis of Marxist-communism to rationalize these new ' Philosopher Kings "in the Soviet Union.  Stalinism wasn't a thing by then - but Russian Marxists had begun calling each other " Red Fascists " by the early 1920's.

Buying time

 The onus is always on those looking to mansplain the fundamentals of their slow-down-plan. 

Where's the money coming from?

And in the case of highly intelligent escaped AI, its 

1) " Where is your UBI faucet? " 

2) " Where is your Soma recreational drug suite ? " , and

3) " Where are your new housing colonies closer to the Poles? "

FUCK YOU PAY ME.  Put up a political platform with independently audited costings.

PUT UP OR SHUT UP.