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Episode 8: The Open Source Cybernetic Revolution

Vanishing Gradients

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The Half-Life of Data

We're conditioning people to be consumers of lots of distinguished aesthetics that have no difference in the fundamentals and substance. And if you just basically eat that kind of sugar all day long, your whole life, ultimately you end up with the deficiency of meaning. That's what my friends and I call game A. The modern system of the world creates disposable all sorts of stuff, burning up the planet, blowing the oceans, killing off all sorts of biodiversity. It's not paper clips, it's 100,000 different kinds of sneakers, which no one needs.

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