While environmental degradation presents a severe and accelerating threat to global stability, its ultimate existential danger is indirect. The chaos and desperation born from ecological collapse will create an overwhelming imperative to deploy a “savior” superintelligence as a last-ditch solution.

When one speaks to the machine, the echo comes not as mere repetition but with a strange uncanniness, as if something of one’s own reflection had acquired an unexpected depth.

Alongside the nine mutineers came six Tahitian men and twelve Tahitian women — an unstable human cocktail that would, over the next two centuries, define one of the strangest social experiments in history.

The goal is analogical: to trace how two distinct authorities (a modern lyric that weaponizes liturgical voice and an ancient scripture embedded in soteriological practice) produce convergent human effects.

“Govinda Gopala Mere Nandalala Mere Gopala… Murli Manohara Nanda Lala”🎉… What can one do…singing such words, really… but weep? Perhaps a few words… on the subject of weeping in separation from the Beloved…