Contraptions

Contraptions

Two Black Holes

Where do you go after you've seen the central black hole?

Venkatesh Rao
Dec 11, 2022
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This has been a schizophrenic year for me. Objectively, so much has happened in the world, January seems an aeon ago. Subjectively, so little feels like it has changed, January seems like it was just a week ago.

Running along both objective and subjective memory streams though, there is a sense of an event horizon fracturing our experience of historical…

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