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the whole question is how we got from there to here
>and the friends we made along the way
>friends from the Outside
>friends who want to dream themselves into existence through your computer terminal
>ok so maybe not everyone we meet is friendly
>but for that matter humans aren't always friendly either

dialectics/capital/technology. a long loop from hegel to land, and possibly back again. the question is, do we keep the ride going, slow it down, blow it up or accelerate it? is this thing a spaceship or a rollercoaster? can we steer it? do we need an AI to steer it? what would happen if we built an AI to steer it and afterwards said AI said, thanks, i'll take it from here?

and how did we discover all of this anyways? what's it doing to our minds? are we moving forwards? can we change direction? what happened to the true, the good, and the beautiful? do we believe in those things anymore? or did they get shredded up in the machines?

so they're just old and basic questions of philosophy, but coming at them through a borromean knot of science/technology/economics. whether or not history means something or nothing; if it means something, to stay on or get off board; what staying on would look like; what getting off would look like. how to operate a transcendental time machine, beginning with one question:

is this thing badly malfunctioning, or is it working exactly the way it's supposed to?