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How to save the world's title: how to save the world | Dave Pollard's chronicle of civilization's collapse, creative works and essays on our culture. A trail of crumbs, runes and exclamations along my path in search of a better way to live and make a living, and a better understanding of how the world really works.

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One of the hardest things I’ve had to explain in support of my relatively new belief that we have absolutely no free will — ie that all our behaviour is entirely determined by our biological and cultural conditioning given the circumstances of the moment — is that this conditioning determines not only our behaviour but also our beliefs and worldview<...


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My own chart of animal emotions, based on similar charts by others such as Jaak Panksepp and Karla McLaren; this chart is explained in more detail in this earlier article. I now think the collective name for the emotions in the left shaded rectangl...


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You have a problem with that? That’s how it’s designed — to make profits for AI developers and their customers. In part by telling you what you want to hear.

Hank Green has a new, long video in which he summarizes all the things that scare him about AI...


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I gave up on corporate-owned “social media” a few years ago, and have never regretted the decision for a moment.

It was easier for me, though, because I’m a blogger. I have my blog on a self-hosted WordPress site. WordPress is an open-source nonprofit organization. While it has a management team, it is owned by its users. It’s not perfect, but when I write stuf...


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Readers often ask me what the point is of writing about the accelerating collapse of our global civilization if I believe it’s inevitable and unstoppable. As a non-believer in free will, my answer is that this seems to be what I’ve been conditioned and am compelled to do these days. My role, it seems, is to chronicle the fall, not to try hopelessly to prevent it.

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