Philosophy

A Cybernetic Middle Ages – An AI Vision from the Future

“In the age of infinite answers, the true rebel learns to question the question.”

Prelude

In the old world, power belonged to those who wrote the words. In our time, it belongs to those who summon them.

Large Language Models (LLMs) have not merely altered how we search for knowledge - they have inverted the structure of knowing itself. We no longer learn to express thought; we learn to invoke outputs. We do not read - we prompt. And most people don’t even do that.

Truck-kun: The Grim Reaper of the Isekai Age

Behind the meme of Truck-kun lies a modern archetype—a mechanical angel of death, a satirical mirror of our world’s relationship with mortality.

From Agora to Banhammer: Digital Spaces Between Freedom and Control

In the early days of the Internet, Usenet was what the Greeks once called the agora: a public space where everyone could speak, and it was entirely up to the listener whether to engage—or not.

Usenet: The Digital Agora

Usenet was a decentralized discussion system. There were no central authorities, no gatekeepers, no global moderators. If you had something to say, you said it—and if someone didn’t want to hear it, they used the killfile. The killfile was simple but powerful: it let each user block specific posters, topics, or keywords. This was not censorship. It was self-curation, not imposed silence.