Tag: Freedom — 5 posts
In Part 1 we looked at how Musk takes all of the wrong lessons from the literary greats he apparently admires:
In this Part 2, we will examine the integrity of Musk’s views on free speech, and the engines of hate speech and disinformation he is developing.
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Like many poets and prophets, Leonard was (we hope) not wrong - just early.
**"It ’s coming to America first / The cradle of the best and of the worst / It’s here they got the range /And the machinery for change / And it’s here they got the spiritual thirst / It’s here the family’s broken / And it’s here the lonely say / That the heart has got to open / In a fundamental way / Democracy is coming to the U.S.A"**1
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I have created an AI podcast version with additional information from my article ‘Direct Decentralised Democracy’:
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A Fragile Living Skin
Continued from:
The distribution of steam molecules in a room, how the molecules will change location and how long it will take for them to become water again are all potentially determinable. However, at the most fundamental scale of where each molecule is exactly and where it is moving from and to, it becomes increasingly difficult and fuzzy – in fact, at the sub-atomic level, certainty becomes impossible. [1] Certainty (determinism) at any scale is only approximate – the smaller the scale or the larger the field (including space-time) in question, the more difficult it becomes to measure and to calculate all the variables. [2] Entropy is the universe’s way of ensuring we are all honest players when it comes to knowing the future, though some may know more than others.
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Vincent van Gogh, “Landscape with Snow”, 1888, Wikipedia, public domain.
“Be melting snow, Wash yourself of yourself”
(Rumi)[1]
The laws of physics are wonderful, not least because they show us some of the magic formulas behind the seeming mystery of life and the universe. They are also good and proper ‘laws’ – that is, they are intended to be equivalent across space and time.
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