Civilization will not attain perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest. - Émile Zola Let us begin with a documented fact. In 2019, Facebook’s internal research teams discovered that their engagement-based ranking algorithms amplified divisive content, with angry reactions initially weighted five
Let us begin with the obvious, which is rarely as obvious as it should be: the moment you set out to construct a "framework" for meaning, you have already conceded the central point your framework must deny. You are like a man building a ladder to the moon
Imagine, for a moment, that you’re standing at the edge of what we know. You understand evolution, thermodynamics, quantum mechanics—perhaps you’ve even grappled with the mathematics of entropy. Yet none of this technical fluency answers the question that still whispers in quiet moments: What is any of