This post is whimsical. Not to be confused with telecom engineering standards, but the underlying logic is the same as in our social ecology article. Have fun reading it! Telecom spam filters were supposed to solve a simple problem: stop fraudsters from flooding our phones with garbage calls. Instead, they have produced a surreal outcome:…
Or: How dopamine vices, algorithmic matchmaking, and safety‑first thinking turned us into a species of armored burrowers 1. The Limbic Takeover We live in the most comfortable era of human history. We also live in the most anxious one. The modern man wakes to a screen. The screen offers a menu of easy vices: infinite…