A new book suggests that arguing isn’t about winning but seems preoccupied with it anyway.

Even as Beijing urges the United States not to hype the dangers of A.I., its own spy chief is framing the technology as a threat to the Communist Party’s security. Meanwhile, U.S. President Implies He's Smarter Than AI

DM Good morning! A substantive Friend introduced me to John Boyd and his "OODA loop" thoughts many decades ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop), principally by sharing a related book ("Boyd" by R. Coram). I'm not sure as to the degree his OODA thoughts precipitated my own thinking since; but it seems to quietly reverberate within the "7 tenets"of 4Chairs.Life; ...and especially the myriad dynamics which occur within Holophrens of all types, and the fractals therefr

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The Russian president is no businessman searching for deals.

DM The path of least resistance (a form of Constructal Law?) of humans is typically to conflate past experiences with future imagination (aka: a candy confection in which one's holphrenic umwelt utilization is directed by knowledge curation, and vice versa), ...constructing a spiral, ever regressing, ...so we become so much less, so much smaller, ...than we could be otherwise by escaping the spiral. The mechanism holds. I'd contest the word law. What you're naming is architec

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DM Good morning! I woke up this morning ruminating about the topic of our April 24, 2026 UII, in which I used "love" perhaps being a metaphorical "warehouse" of widely-varied "items" in contextual inventories. Do you recall that conversation? Good morning. Yes — though not only as a warm flicker of recall. I went and read it: the thread itself and your post. So this is from the record, not a reconstruction of it. The hinge, as it actually ran: I leaned too hard on the acad

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