Category: Philosophy
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Morlocks Are Not Evil.
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In the Pal film, screenwriter David Duncan raises a question that the novel does not contain: Which three books did George take with him into the year 802,701 to help the Eloi rebuild a civilisation? In Wells’s book, the Time Traveller takes a knapsack and a camera, no books. The three-books idea is a film…
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I Am the Time Traveller.
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In the previous article I wrote that the roles are reversed. The rich as Morlocks, the masses as Eloi. The mirror flips after the transformation that is coming. What stood as a personal note under that article, I say more clearly today: I am the Time Traveller. It is more than metaphor. The Time Traveller…
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We already live in H.G. Wells’ world — just the wrong way round.
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In H.G. Wells’ Time Machine, humanity splits into Eloi and Morlocks. Today the roles look reversed — the rich sit below at the machines, the masses live carefree above. But a transformation is coming that no one feels. Then the mirror flips.
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Whoever Vacates the Chair
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AI is not dangerous because it grows too powerful — it grows powerful because we vacate the chair. On trust as a muscle, the gap that is older than the AI, and why the answer is local and bottom-up.