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All dispatches →Friendship's dirty secret, traced across the library: it's not killed by distance or betrayal but by the promotion. Every text here agrees — the real threat to friendship is becoming useful to each other in asymmetric ways.
O'Neil's central gift was a naming convention. Opacity, Scale, Damage—three criteria, capitalized and repeated until they work like a diagnostic checklist. A WMD is any model that scores high on all three. The framework was elegant enough that it escaped the book almost immediately, entering policy …
Read more →The path from Egan's digital clones to Simmons's pilgrims runs through diaspora as wound, not technology — scattered peoples who carry their identities like cruciforms under the skin.