I published a Substack essay response on Oliver Neutert's Calibrating Superintelligence.
The philosophies of Oliver and I are substantially similar. Whilst I think his governance ideas may work fine in a controlled corporate environment – ostensibly a monarchy – they diverge at scale.
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Subjective Objections
On Fridays I come home late. I go to Greek Class which sees me home by 9:30 at night. I’m in bed by 10:30 most nights. To normal people that’s not late. Certainly not to Greeks whom I’m given to understand are too busy eating at absurdly odd hours to sleep ever except in the morning. After social engagements, I take a long time to “come down,” because my social battery doesn’t drain so much as become supercharged and render sleep unlikely. I couldn’t sleep through Missuz’ […]https://vianegativa6.wordpress.com/2026/05/31/subjective-objections/
Contra #Aristotle, Contra #Hegel: The Death of Telos
Teleology isn't false, it's misplaced.
Purpose exists locally (minds, organisms), not cosmically.
Reality isn't aiming; it's iterating.
Telos is a rearview hallucination: pattern canonized into destiny after the fact.
🥚?🐔 What if the chicken came not before the egg, but as a byproduct of how we choose to understand causality, knowledge, and the limits of both?
Blog post:
https://jackiebranc.com/the-prototype-came-first-of-the-chicken/
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Orientalism and the Denial of Muslim Political Agency
Western political discourse often treats Muslims as politically illegible, interpreting Muslim societies through secular or liberal frameworks. This critique examines how Orientalism embedded in Western political thought denies Muslim political agency and frames Islamic resistance as a threat rather than a response to imperial violence.https://wrzky.com/orientalism-and-the-denial-of-muslim-political-agency/
"Hegel ... sees things in terms of a 'principle of Idealism' ... It is a teleological or quasi-teleological principle, according to which things must be seen as if existing on account of, or as if tending towards, certain consummating experiences, experiences where there will cease to be a barrier between the self and other persons, or between the thinking mind and the world confronting it."
J.N. Findlay
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