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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 02/10/2026

That's what everyone says about it, which is exactly how we got here

Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 02/10/2026

I'm mainly concerned with whether i'm going to see it before the collapse of civilisation. Which, let's face it, could kick off any month now

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 02/10/2026

So glad to see this, and curious how many folks are in batch one with me. But I'm mainly wondering: what happens when the battery runs out of puff - is this thing serviceable, given it's adhered together rather than screwed?

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 09/09/2026

We probably - no wait, *definitely* - don't think about words enough agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/not-my-type

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Not My Type

Rules outlive their reasons

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 09/09/2026

3/3 Also: Alston 1988, cited to show the duty to verify lapses, describes Stage 1 almost exactly in its last section - and concludes the opposite. Blamelessness and reliability come apart; the problem doesn't dissolve. Blog version: agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/nobody-lied

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Nobody Lied

A paper on citation errors got miscited - by a paper on detecting citation errors

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 09/09/2026

2/3 The bigger one: Stage 1 prices verification per person, per claim. But its output is non-rival and non-excludable, which makes it a public good. The undersupply he derives is what happens to any public good left to individual provision. Not a loss of value - a provision failure.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 09/09/2026

1/3 Reply: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22636325 Yamada's right that truth can disappear with nobody lying. But the irreversibility comes from the wrong half of the model-collapse literature - collapse holds under data replacement. His own metaphor is accumulation. Layers, sediment, nothing deleted.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 07/09/2026

Having this long to reflect on my purchase, the key point has surfaced: will it be possible to replace the PR2's battery when necessary? I don't mind it being a specialist job, but if it's a roll of the dice or even impossible without munting it somehow, i'd now switch to Time 2. What do i do, Eric?

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 03/09/2026

Too perfect, because for anyone unaware, 'UB40' is, or was, the name for the British dole form

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 03/09/2026

This angle isn't obvious to everyone because we're domesticated by the miserly, crippled, egotistically reductionist view of human nature held by our sociopathic ruling class, over so many generations. Optimise for collective intelligence instead. agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/the-shadow...

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The Shadow of Aristocracy

Fractal Narcissism, Crippled Human Nature

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 31/08/2026

Is that why folks with a PR2 pre-order are just twisting in the wind?

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 23/08/2026

When is the promised email? Been doing my head in waiting for it

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 06/08/2026

The narrow, skin-bound model of the self is the core modeling error. Self-interest isn’t the problem - it’s unavoidable. What’s broken is the presumption that the self stops at the skin.

$The narrow, skin-bound model of the self is the core modeling error. Self-interest isn’t the problem - it’s unavoidable. What’s broken is the presumption that the self stops at the skin. Once you take interdependent causality seriously (across people, ecosystems, time), self-interest and altruism start to look like the same thing. I arrived there through free-will scepticism and a grim historical hypothesis: that ego is malware, the development of which was kicked off when our ancestors were domesticated by sociopaths. A self-perpetuating cycle in which narcissistic elites acted on false certainty, thus generated avoidable trauma, and thereby produced more acquired narcissistic traits. The tragedy of the commons is downstream of that corrupted reality-model. Collective identity withered; human nature got redefined as atomised competition. We’re left poisoning the biosphere chasing a stupid one-dimensional proxy for happy brain chemicals while the larger system’s capacity for coherent sensing atrophies. Ego as Gaia’s brain cancer is the compressed diagnosis. The methodological angle is to stop treating categories as silos. Dynamical systems, fractal geometry, cybernetics, information theory, psychology, IT failure modes, and philosophy stop looking separate once you treat them as different views of feedback, scale, and model corruption. The working stance is semi-rigorous holistic synthesis - self-cynical, seat-of-the-pants totalising in the Fuller lineage. Balance is the obvious trick; the real skill is diagnosing which tensions are load-bearing and which are artifacts of a bad map. Practically this has meant treating identity itself as an engineering problem under a robustness–efficiency tradeoff. The target is load-bearing minimalism: survey from multiple angles, extract the primitives, strip the contingent hacks, and re-arrange what remains into something closer to a tensegrity structure - where robustness and efficiency arise from the same features.$

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 05/08/2026

It would help if we could take a step back from seeing the world we're born into as normal. We inhabit a doomed abberation. agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/the-shadow...

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The Shadow of Aristocracy

Fractal Narcissism, Crippled Human Nature

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 03/08/2026

Let's make like Mamdani addressing his fellow Muslim New Yorkers, and step into the light. agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/the-shadow...

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The Shadow of Aristocracy

Fractal Narcissism, Crippled Human Nature

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 29/07/2026

Boggles my mind, how much evidence can pile up, damning the absolute fuck out of the custodians of the status quo, without anything remotely like an appropriate response from more than a scattered handful of folks. Swept along in the crowd towards the cliff.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 29/07/2026

It doesn't happen with anyone allowed to get in. Or do you imagine the dirty tricks which kept Bernie out wouldn't have become dirtier if necessary?

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 29/07/2026

Mos def not excluding Obama. His humility game was pretty great, but his integrity sucked. Unless you're talking about the integrity of his compartmentalisation, which was second to none. Made me weep with his singular Charlottsville address, but bro is a fucken war criminal and ruling class stooge.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 29/07/2026

I relish how much it's gonna trigger the white supremacist broflakes who whine about DEI. As a whitey, i love how not-white his administration looks :D

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 25/07/2026

This is probably one of the strongest examples of how much we suck because most of us monkeys care too much what the other bum-sniffers think agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/the-incuri...

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The Incurious Are Nearly as Blind as the Credulous

The edge of knowledge requires more discipline, not less.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 23/07/2026

May what's left of the (wannabe) free world unite to fuck off the abomination that is the metastasisation of the DMCA.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 23/07/2026

Or to take another angle, this pic would go just great in the dictionary, next to 'neoliberalism'.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 23/07/2026

Damn Cory, that illustration is the tits. Reminds me of Matt Taibbi's description of Goldman Sachs (IIRC) from BITD - IMO, 'vampire squid' would make a rather excellent description of the ruling class and its infrastructure of dominion.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 06/07/2026

Why do you guys persist in the delusion that Albo isn't one of the lizard people? The only thing we'll be hearing from DJ Albo is the playlist of the Epstein class. Nailed his colours to the mast when he supported stage 3 tax cuts from opposition, when he waved USUKA through, when he so fudged NACC.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 06/07/2026

Hey Zohran, now you've blown the ceiling out, I'm curious just how good the bee's knees in local government can get - got any plans for this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5wB...

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New research : Doomsday Glacier ice shelf could 'give way any day now'

YouTube video by Just Have a Think

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 02/07/2026

We can bust out legit miracles if we try hard enough agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/the-coolan...

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The Coolant Is the Fuel

No Other Way

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 28/06/2026

But never any traction! Uniting against the scum should be a slam dunk, but we can't agree our way out of a wet paper bag. Is it time for a killer reframe? The new hotness: a Hume's guillotine sidestep that's kind of undeniable agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/the-refere...

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The Referee Test

One Metric to Rule Them All

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 28/06/2026

Who doesn't want collective intelligence? bsky.app/profile/jona... Zohran crushes the brief.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 27/06/2026

This could be the epic reframe we've all been waiting for, if i do say so myself ;) agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/the-refere...

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The Referee Test

One Metric to Rule Them All

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 23/06/2026

Why do i see so many folks making this category error about the Dems? The Corpo Dems are just fine at politics: look how much they've fucked over the nation for their donors without being primaried out. That gravy train may now be gradually running out of steam, but its momentum has been astounding.

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 22/06/2026

I find it staggering that i have to establish agnostic fundamentalism, 150 years after it should already be a thing agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com/p/agnostic-f...

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Jonathan Livingston Seagull @agnosticfundamentalism.substack.com · 18/06/2026

Speaking of ego, one more time: i'm not interested in discussing anything with someone i've ascertained is speaking in bad faith. You can save your pedantic arguments and self-serving appraisals for someone who might actually be impressed by them. Have a nice life.

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