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It's not that science isn't useful. It's just not useful on balance in the hands of The 97th Percentile.


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The Boomerang Workforce

The economic evidence for this limitation is quietly accumulating in boardrooms and balance sheets. Over the past two ...

AI has its limitations as demonstrated. Though I do believe that Burja comes closer than anyone I've run across to articulating the same reasons this is not an information age, why it's not, and what would generally be required to get to an information age.

Based on the topics of the last few ...

The war of England and France and the brigandage it spawned revealed the emptiness of chivalry's military pretensions and the falsity of its moral ones.


In the West today, we operate under the influence of our own key philosophy, which we can call scientism: the tendency to rely on ...

AI has its limitations as demonstrated.


The caparison to H is the most sincere laughter I have had in well way over two decades.

I'm planning to summarize the answer to the question based on what's been written in the Dark Age Hovel.

Part of the limitation with AI is that since the world ...

At the same time, record-high public debt and sovereign debt markets increasingly dominated by large, highly leveraged hedge funds had created “a new sovereign-financial stability nexus,” which poses growing risks.

“The new fiscal-financial stability nexus may mean more frequent and sharper drops ...

From Google AI:

Do Samo Burja and Higgenbotham from Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel share a similar view regarding the end of industrial civilization and the fact that an information age has not happened?

Yes, Samo Burja and the anonymous intellectual behind Dark Age Hovel (often associated with ...

Nevertheless, the author of the film and I perceived a very different result. We witnessed the opposite occurring. It is not the most, but the least, talented who are promoted. The qualities rewarded are not the virtues, but the vices. Conceit, stupidity, greed and laziness attract success while ...

Samo Burja March 24, 2021 Articles
The End of Industrial Society

Recognizing the unique signs of a possible civilizational collapse, rather than being blindsided by it, requires a bold thesis as to what the core engine of our civilization is. Without a clear and correct theory of what makes our ...

In the West today, we operate under the influence of our own key philosophy, which we can call scientism: the tendency to rely on scientific claims to describe the functioning of society, even when there is no empirical reason to assume that they apply. We act as if we are already living in a ...

Johannesburg, while considered the capital city of Africa, is, being in Africa, a city I would still consider to be on the periphery and, therefore, the collapse has been slow so far.

When New York City and the other capital cities of the hegemon collapse, it should be a lot more sudden and a lot ...