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https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/half-an-hour-before-dawn-in-san-francisco
I try to avoid San Francisco. When I go, I surround myself with people; otherwise I have morbid thoughts. But a morning appointment and miscalculated transit time find me alone on the SF streets half an hour before dawn.
The skyscrapers get to me. I'm an heir to Art Deco and the cult of progress; I should idolize skyscrapers as symbols of human accomplishment. I can't. They look no more human than a termite nest. Maybe less. They inspire awe, but no kinship. What marvels techno-capital creates as it instantiates itself, too bad I'm a hairless ape and can take no credit for such things.
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https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/half-an-hour-before-dawn-in-san-francisco
I try to avoid San Francisco. When I go, I surround myself with people; otherwise I have morbid thoughts. But a morning appointment and miscalculated transit time find me alone on the SF streets half an hour before dawn.
The skyscrapers get to me. I'm an heir to Art Deco and the cult of progress; I should idolize skyscrapers as symbols of human accomplishment. I can't. They look no more human than a termite nest. Maybe less. They inspire awe, but no kinship. What marvels techno-capital creates as it instantiates itself, too bad I'm a hairless ape and can take no credit for such things.

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