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The Thing That It Is: Toward a Curriculum for the Officer Class
I’m going to follow up on suggestions in preceding posts and outline the program of a prospective Academy for the New Officer Class.
Jan 3
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Dennis Bouvard
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The Thing That It Is: Toward a Curriculum for the Officer Class
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December 2024
On Credit and the Idiom
Here's a way to prepare for the explorations of this post: think about “argumentation,” what we mean by it, what counts as a “good” or even “genuine…
Dec 20, 2024
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Dennis Bouvard
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On Credit and the Idiom
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On the Existence of World Scenes
If we’re going to talk of the stack of scenes then we’re going to be speaking of hierarchies of scenes and scenes referencing other scenes in various…
Dec 7, 2024
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Dennis Bouvard
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November 2024
Universal Translation Machine
The earliest computer translations were comically bad, because they tried to translate texts word by word—at first, it seemed, without any grammar…
Nov 24, 2024
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Dennis Bouvard
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Universal Translation Machine
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The Palestine War
After the early, highly successful, Israeli moves against Hezbollah in Lebanon, I saw it reported that Israel was offering to stop the attack on…
Nov 11, 2024
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Dennis Bouvard
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October 2024
Trails of Liminal Succession
There’s nothing that can’t be automated but there will always be a residue to any automation, and a new, surplus capability to train the new forms of…
Oct 29, 2024
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Dennis Bouvard
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Trails of Liminal Succession
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Blockchaining the Center
I begin by recalling (and revising) an old thought experiment of mine, somewhat derivative of Moldbug (but also Peirce, and maybe even Nietzsche), and…
Oct 18, 2024
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Dennis Bouvard
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Blockchaining the Center
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Demand and the Grammar of Desire
Desire is generally understood in distinction from need, and in that way its specifically human quality is brought out—desire implicates us in the…
Oct 8, 2024
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Dennis Bouvard
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September 2024
Stacked Presencing
Tokenizing NSM primes involves turning the declarative sentence into or treating it as an output of the linguistic data stored as…
Sep 24, 2024
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Dennis Bouvard
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Nomos/Class Action
If I had the ear of any billionaires, I would try to persuade them to stop wasting their money on political candidates and even most of their think…
Sep 12, 2024
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Dennis Bouvard
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Tokenizing the Primes
Reworking the relations between currency, succession and the Stack provides a frame for returning to Anna Wierzbicka’s primes and giving them some real…
Sep 2, 2024
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Tokenizing the Primes
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August 2024
Continuum of Power
It is true that monarchy is the only real form of governance—everything else is either mimicking monarchy or predicated on the endless struggle to…
Aug 20, 2024
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Dennis Bouvard
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