First in a series where I ask Claude to analyse the Two Valleys parable from various perspectives.
Sure, you could have run the stories through yourself. In fact, you still can, but this was the start of my dialogue. I centre the dialogue on my anti-Enlightenment sentiments.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1744 ed.)
More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/15…
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"Better a known rival than an unpredictable friend." - Futurist Jim Carroll
There's a lot of talk online about what happens when partnerships become unstable.
When one side of a partnership slides over the abyss of rationality, into a mindset of madness.
When what was once reliable becomes volatile, when the predictable becomes uncertain, and the rational, irrational.
And the lesson is that you have to pick your partners carefully.
Strategically.
Wisely.
With caution.
With due diligence.
With both eyes wide open and elbows up.
You'll never move forward if you keep trying to rely on a relationship that has become untenable.
Partnership involves predictable, rational action.
And when that disappears, so should the reliance on the partnership - because it becomes time to form new ones.
Those partnerships might involve choices that, in an old world, might not have made sense but, in a new world, demand attention.
That's simply reality!
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Futurist Jim Carroll often speaks about the importance of organizations to develop the capability for 'fast partnerships.' He realizes it now applies to nations, too.
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Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/01/daily-inspiration-better-a-known-rival-than-an-unpredictable-friend/
The decisions you can't explain are often the ones you got right.
Pattern recognition vs. protocol compliance: why your most sophisticated computational resource is the one you've been trained to override.
🔗 https://kairos-prometheon.com/en/blog/2026-01-25-pattern-recognition/
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I critique top moral psychology and adjacent books. These books do an excellent job of explaining that humans are inherently irrational…
👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/21/moral-psychology-critique/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
…then they dispense the advice: Be rational. 🧐
For those in the know, this is the fundamental problem with psychology, economics, politics, and a host of other disciplines that presume rationality.
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I discuss A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, Chapter 1: A Genealogy of Insufficiency – From Ancient Greece through the 20th Century.
👉 https://youtu.be/A-yoDtJ_ICE
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