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Model Zero: Why You Are Obsolete at Almost Every Level and Live Largely in Fiction
What is real?
You are inclined to drift deeper and deeper into fictional thinking and obsolesence.
You keep constructing and sticking with increasingly obsolete ideas about the world, even though many of them were rather fictional to begin with.
Model Zero shows how these forces emerge.
Some very basic operating principles of your mind, mental models and language pull you towards fiction.
The way you interact with the world through mediating structures, ranging from electronic devices to words and mental models, creates an inertial force which leads you away from your goals.
By mastering these forces, you can evolve towards a mentally and physically greater being who inhabits a very different kind of reality.
Model Zero is a toolkit for reconstructing yourself as someone who can thrive in an environment that is changing at an exponential pace.
You are inclined to drift deeper and deeper into fictional thinking and obsolesence.
You keep constructing and sticking with increasingly obsolete ideas about the world, even though many of them were rather fictional to begin with.
Model Zero shows how these forces emerge.
Some very basic operating principles of your mind, mental models and language pull you towards fiction.
The way you interact with the world through mediating structures, ranging from electronic devices to words and mental models, creates an inertial force which leads you away from your goals.
By mastering these forces, you can evolve towards a mentally and physically greater being who inhabits a very different kind of reality.
Model Zero is a toolkit for reconstructing yourself as someone who can thrive in an environment that is changing at an exponential pace.
- GenresPhilosophy
204 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 26, 2013
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June 23, 2021
Model Zero is a misunderstood masterwork! I would put this book into a rare class of books on par with: Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter, Revolutionary Wealth by Alvin and Heidi Toffler and The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn.
What you need to first understand about this book before picking it up is that it's encoded and you need an IQ at least 4 standard deviations from the mean to decode it properly. It's written in the vein of that famous quote by Mark Twain: “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”... except the author took the time to write a short book, and true to form it is a very short very dense book. Each few pages of Model Zero amounts to nothing less than an entirely new thesis of a typical best seller pop-philosophy book. Because of this Model Zero will never have wide popular appeal, but much like the letters of Seneca Seneca the Younger (the now famous Stoic Philosopher) my hope is that one day, someone worthy will pick up this book and do humanity the service of translating it into layman terms with an entertaining narrative!
What you need to first understand about this book before picking it up is that it's encoded and you need an IQ at least 4 standard deviations from the mean to decode it properly. It's written in the vein of that famous quote by Mark Twain: “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”... except the author took the time to write a short book, and true to form it is a very short very dense book. Each few pages of Model Zero amounts to nothing less than an entirely new thesis of a typical best seller pop-philosophy book. Because of this Model Zero will never have wide popular appeal, but much like the letters of Seneca Seneca the Younger (the now famous Stoic Philosopher) my hope is that one day, someone worthy will pick up this book and do humanity the service of translating it into layman terms with an entertaining narrative!
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