Life in the Singularity

Life in the Singularity

The Normalcy Fraud

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Matt McDonagh
Jul 02, 2025
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There’s a lie, or at least a spectacular misdirection, that we all learn sometime between middle school math and our first soul-crushing corporate seminar. It’s a beautiful, comforting, and deeply seductive idea. It comes with a lovely picture: a perfect, symmetrical hill, rising gracefully from nothing, peaking in the middle, and falling back to nothin…

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