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Chor PharnNotes, fragments, and signals from a world entering maintenance.
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How Civilizations Digest the Future
Christopher Nolan was asked a question he did not quite answer.
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The Machine Answered Too Easily
This is a heavily edited conversation between Chor Pharn and ChatGPT, which he calls Kazu, with one intervention from another machine. Repetition has been cut. Some answers have been shortened. A few passages have been moved so that the int...
The human does not disappear
The first Axial Age was not exactly human-centred—but it was human-addressed
The first Axial traditions often displaced humanity from the centre of the cosmos. The human stood beneath Heaven, before God, inside the Dao, caught in samsara,...
Tokens as Industrial Energy
The first mistake is to think of a token as a word.
The second is to think of a token as intelligence.
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