by justinbullock | Jul 2, 2022 | General
Hey, what’s that sound?”It’s time we stopHey, what’s that sound?Everybody look, what’s going down?Paranoia strikes deepInto your life it will creepIt starts when you’re always afraidStep out of line, the men come and take you awayWe...
by justinbullock | May 20, 2022 | General
The Prelude to AnalogiaIn what has come before, I have argued that the incorporation of machine agents into large organizations has resulted in a new form of hybrid superintelligences. And, furthermore, that these superintelligences pose a threat to human freedom. To...
by justinbullock | Apr 5, 2022 | General
The Will to Order”The wish to impose order upon confusion, to bring harmony out of dissonance and unity out of multiplicity is a kind of intellectual instinct, a primary and fundamental urge of the mind. Within the realms of science, art and philosophy the...
by justinbullock | Mar 1, 2022 | General
“In the Brave New World of my fable, the problem of human numbers in their relation to natural resources had been effectively solved. An optimum figure for world population had been calculated and numbers were maintained at this figure (a little under two...
by justinbullock | Feb 1, 2022 | General
We begin with a visit to Huxley’s Brave New World, where one of the world controllers, Mustapha Mond, is having a conversation with John The Savage and his two companions Bernard Marx and Helmholtz Watson.Brave New World: The Controller and The Savage“But why is...
by justinbullock | Dec 31, 2021 | General
In this post, Chapter 2 of the sequence, I share the fable of The Other Earth from Olaf Stapledon’s Star Maker. It is abridged and lightly edited. I have also added a brief introduction titled “Learning to Travel” to provide context found elsewhere in Star Maker. It...
