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On Encountering an Object That Doesn't Require Your Permission to Exist
I. The Shared Platform
Everyone lives inside a shared assumption. It cuts across every division humans createāreligion, politics, culture,
I. An object outside of time
In Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, Cooper falls into the black hole Gargantua and finds himself inside a tesseractāa four-dimensional structure where time is rendered as
At the start of the year 2025, I wrote some essays asking two questions: why do you believe what you believe, and what is your world view? During the course of the year
Why 2026 May Surpass 1914 and 1939 in Systemic Risk
"Today, we heard yet another signal from Moscow that they are preparing to make next year a year of war. These signals