Why do some ideas spread like wildfire, while others resist being seen — despite their importance? A new book by Nadia Asparouhova explores the emerging phenomenon of antimemetics. Published by the Dark Forest Collective.| darkforest.metalabel.com
Warm Caches in Cold Worlds| contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Trade Complexity, Tariff Nationalism, and the Fragile Leviathan| contraptions.venkateshrao.com
Language, Homogenization, and the Search for Alpha| contraptions.venkateshrao.com
The theme for the 2025 book club is Contraptionist History. We will read a set of history books selected to explore the thesis that the story of civilization 1200-1600 AD is best understood as the construction of the first civilization-scale machine.| contraptions.venkateshrao.com
The Internet is now a very complicated place| contraptions.venkateshrao.com
I’m a little late to the party, but I just finished the wonderfully imaginative There Is No Antimemetics Division (2020) by qntm. The premise is that our world is full of things with antimemetic pr…| ribbonfarm