I consider these posts as some form of sand mandala, but without me actually going through with the last part of the ritual which consists of erasing the mandala. :P Eh, it's basically the same, ending up on the garbage heap of some server who no-one will access. :P In my best moments it's less of a mandala and more in the vein of Nietzsches The Gay Science. I just lose my patience with all these unstructured thoughts and sometimes just want to throw shit out because I don't know what to do with it all. I'm trying to write a bible here man, and it's gotta be a maximum of a couple of hundred pages long. I think.
We
think that dystopian imaginings primarily frighten us because they
show us that many roads to hell are paved with good intentions. But
the greater horror of dystopian nightmares is that part of us
actually wish those dreams would come true.
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The
genius makes the machines. The genius is of
the
machines. The genius is the definitive blend of man and machine. But
the genius is also the degenerate who needs the machine to be
complete. The genius has genius ideas. The genius is of
the
world of ideas. We look up to the genius, with their savant powers.
But we also look down upon the genius, thinking them sad, partial
humans without capacity for truly living in the world of humans.
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Evaluation
has become a scientific discipline in the form of a trans
discipline, which means that it's analytic rather than empirical
– mainly a tool to give other scientific disciplines tools to work
with. It has this in common with for example mathematics.
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Consistency within a
system has no claim to consistency claims of things outside of that
system.
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Political
campaigns are made by people. Political campaigns are by their very
nature campaigns, meaning fashionable, meaning (con)temporary,
meaning short-sighted. But lives of people are by their very nature
long, and the lives of systems potentially even longer. This
discrepancy is important to address politically.
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Internal validity is not knowledge.
