Three books. One message. Humanity keeps building what it cannot control. The rest is just paperwork and code Pre-review, on purpose I have not yet read If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky. I placed it on my shelf for a reason. Its reputation arrived before the book did, and it has already started an argument in my
Tag: bureaucracy
“A nation once poised to soar—grounded by the very hands entrusted to lift it.” Once upon a Republic, the Filipino Dream was real. Not the American kind with white picket fences and Disneyland tickets—but the Filipino kind: a home with hollow blocks that didn’t crumble in a typhoon, a job that didn’t require a passport, a country where your vote
Let’s set the scene. You live in California—the land of Teslas, TikTok mansions, and enough VC funding to launch three more Internets. Yet, when you log on to a state government website—say, to renew your driver’s license or pay property taxes—you’re transported not to the future but to a janky time capsule from 2004. Buttons misaligned. Pages that won’t load.