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the singularity is nearer
the singularity is nearer · Mar 30, 2026
The clip show distills a blog’s core philosophy: societies thrive on real production (energy, housing, software, tools, etc.) and suffer when access is gated by rent-seeking, bureaucracy, or centralized control. It frames sovereignty as practical control of the technical stack, urging open-source use, local computation, and distributed infrastructures to prevent domination by any single actor. It also treats AI as a genuine civilizational development—a source of caution against mysticism and centralization—while championing plurality of technosocial centers and a builders-over-rentiers ethic to enlarge collective capability.