a rose is a rose is a rose, but these chair legs were chair legs were St. Michael and all angels

Western civilization had fought for decades to have a secular state.

What happened?

Definitions are messy, language is messy, meaning is messy,

Humans are messy

There needs to be a clear definition of AGI, there isn't one yet and I fear humanity will fail to produce one for a while.

Is it ok if my eulogy says that I wrote it myself?

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The cleanest baseload energy isn’t fusion. It’s already under your feet.

Deep geothermal: 400°C rock exists everywhere on Earth. The physics is solved the only bottleneck is drilling cheap enough to reach 15km.

Millimeter-wave drilling melts granite instead of grinding it. Crack that, and you get limitless, weather-independent power anywhere even under existing cities, reusing dead fossil plants’ grid connections.

Fusion is a 30y bet, but deep geothermal is an engineering problem we can solve and start building right now.

You can count on uncertainty

Intellectual laziness is not just common, it's a business model for many.

We didn’t have an enlightenment just so we could disagree on what we believe in.

We had an enlightenment just so we had the tools to end ideology.

We do not need to agree on opinion.

But we absolutely need to agree on the definitions used to form that opinion.

The value of influence is not measured in accuracy, nor in excellence.

Influence is a market for attention, and the most valuable currency in that market is confident certainty. Which is precisely why being wrong, loudly, often outperforms being right, carefully.

What looks like sincere conviction is frequently a deliberate performance. The influencer’s true motives are monetization, ideological capture, ego, allegiance to undisclosed interests stay hidden behind a mask, because transparency about strategy would collapse the very trust the strategy depends on.

Moral language is the preferred camouflage: by framing self-interest as righteousness, the influencer weaponizes the audience’s conscience against its own skepticism, making disagreement feel not merely incorrect but shameful.

Ethical influence can exist, when the incentive is not ideological.