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Just let go and dance: A crash course in Attractor States

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Here's how I see it all playing out with respect to AI, robots, quantum, politics, and economics.

When Thanos whispered “I am inevitable” this was a mythic example of an attractor state. In plain english, an attractor state is the inevitable conclusion of complex systems; all road lead to Rome. Late Stage Capitalism is the attractor state of neoliberalism: concentration of wealth, disempowered middle class, and all that jazz. I first came across the concept of the attractor state when my audience turned me on to Liv Boeree and Daniel Schmachtenberger. Liv is the poker star who has set herself up as the shieldmaiden against Moloch—the god of toxic competition. Daniel, on the other hand,…

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