Cool! Are you aware of the Philadelphia Writing Club discord, organized by Eric Smith?

Wait, do you also live in the Bucks County? And yes, we did flip it good!

If I do minor revisions on an already drafted text, with perhaps minimal changes but going over an extended length of text, I divide that excerpt’s word count by 10.

My daily minimum is 100 (counting both added and deleted words). But I usually average about 300-400 a day.

If you enjoy my opinion piece (here’s the link again), then spread the word. If you believe that it deserves to be discussed, then please do more than just repost and forget: bring it in front of your community. tinyurl.com/4bykzech 8/8

Like others in the series, it uses the same metaphor: 1,001 steps forward for 1,000 steps back—the property of all diverse, self-organizing systems—whereas all homogeneous, rationally planned ones (no matter how well) take 1,000 steps forward for 1,001 steps back. 7/8

It also shows why a “salad bowl” is much better than a “melting pot” as an immigration policy. Keeping the population as diverse as possible, rather than forcing immigrants into adopting the same culture is the only way to push back entropy. 6/8

But when that happens, it would be a good thing for the country in general. Not having anyone in absolute majority does NOT imply the lack of national identity. The post shows why such diverse nations are superior, on average, to those that have ethnic cores. 5/8

The most radical of Trumpists raise the specter of the Great Replacement theory—while others feel the changes at a subconscious level (“something’s wrong with our country”). Both fear the time when the immigrants turn the United States into a true crossroads of the world. 4/8

The United States has come the closest, yet it still has an Anglo-Saxon ethnic core, albeit not particularly well-defined. The driving force of Trumpism is the fear of being “replaced” by Others. 3/8

Some say such a nation would be pulled in different direction, but the same is true of our brain, whose neurons constantly inhibit one another. So, let’s see what far-from-equilibrium thermodynamics and science of emergence have to say. 2/8

Also, heads up! The last installment to my series is coming within days. It will compare ethnic states to nations where no group is in majority.

The Murderbot Diaries is, in fact, a rare thing in that it takes emotions in artificial minds as a necessity for granted (most of the time) and not as a surprise. But does it know why?

I had more.

Happy birthday!

To help democracy, I wrote an essay on why nations where no group has absolute majority are superior to ethnic states. Not yet ready to publish it, but soon…

Protesting against bad developments doesn’t have to be anti-technology in general. Let’s not swing too hard the other way.