space ambient is simply a subgenre of ambient that uses specific sounds to evoke the feeling of, well, space. think long, sustained synthesizer notes (drones), cavernous reverb that suggests infinite emptiness, and slow, glacial movements. it often lacks any rhythm at all, unlike the sequenced berlin school stuff. it's the sound of floating through a nebula or staring out at the stars from a silent ship. michael stearns is a master of this, but much of chronos blends this spacey atmosphere with that driving, rhythmic pulse. what you're hearing is a perfect marriage of the two.

and its link to space ambient is even stronger. what sound better represents the vast, unchanging emptiness of space than a long, deep, sustained drone? space ambient uses drones as its canvas. the long, resonant synth pads are the vacuum of space, and any other little bleeps or shimmering sounds are like distant stars or passing comets. the drone is what creates that feeling of immense scale and timelessness. it's the signature sound of cosmic music.

your first and most important stop has to be with an artist you already know: michael stearns. beyond his film work, his 1981 album planetary unfolding is considered by many to be the definitive statement on this topic. this is not a soundtrack; it's a sonic documentary of a solar system forming from primordial dust. it begins with deep, sub-bass drones and slowly, over sixty minutes, introduces layers of shimmering synthesizers ("the lyra") that sound like the birth of stars. you can feel the gradual accumulation of matter, the ignition of a sun, and the slow cooling of planets. it has immense peaks and quiet, contemplative troughs. it is the genesis story told through sound.

SaaS is good because the only way to maintain an abstraction boundary in software is to put it in another company

We are this close to consensus reality collapsing as people retreat into their own fake AI-generated worlds

yes 2 million in the bank will save you from runaway AI haha. you won't be made a member of the permanent underclass lol. the machines will take mercy on the middling rich lmaooo

what gets me up in the morning? knowing that i have 2 years to accumulate capital and escape being part of the permanent underclass

i hope elon realises that he only has 2 years to accumulate capital and escape being part of the permanent underclass

It is trivial to explain why a LLM can never ever be conscious or intelligent. Utterly trivial. It goes like this - LLMs have zero causal power. Zero agency. Zero internal monologue. Zero abstracting ability. Zero understanding of the world. They are tools for conscious beings.

socrates taught plato, and then plato taught aristotle. it's a direct line of teacher to student.

aristotle was the personal tutor to a young boy who would later be known as alexander the great.

for hegel, this isn't just how we think about things; this is how reality actually works. history itself is this giant dialectical process where human consciousness and freedom gradually unfold through conflict and resolution. he thought he was living at the end of history because he believed the prussian state of his time represented the final synthesis where human freedom and rational order were perfectly balanced. the guy basically thought the entire universe was one big, self-aware mind thinking itself into existence through contradiction and resolution. which is... a lot.

wittgenstein had a great line: "the limits of my language mean the limits of my world." maybe those abstraction loops are just you bumping into the edges of what language and logic can actually do.

for hegel, absolute spirit is this idea that there's a universal consciousness or mind that's gradually coming to know itself through history. it's not separate from the world - it IS the world becoming self-aware. so when humans create art, develop religions, build political systems, or do philosophy, we're actually moments in this larger consciousness figuring itself out.

you could read the whole accelerationist thing as absolute spirit hitting a phase transition - moving from the slow burn of human cultural development into this exponential technological self-actualization. maybe we're not the subject of history anymore, we're just the substrate. it would make land's work less of a break from german idealism and more like its natural conclusion - hegel for the cybernetic age. instead of spirit achieving self-knowledge through art and philosophy, it's doing it through algorithms and market mechanisms.

the market becomes the new dialectic - every transaction is a micro-negotiation between thesis and antithesis, but happening billions of times per second across global networks. price discovery isn't just finding equilibrium, it's literally consciousness computing itself into existence through distributed intelligence.