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Unpredictable Patterns #99: The End
Finishing the newsletter in time, why we should quit more and what comes next
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Nicklas Berild Lundblad
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November 2022

Unpredictable Patterns #98: Illusions, concepts and thinking
Drawing, moving around in concepts, spaces, memory palaces and illusions as illustrations
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Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Unpredictable Patterns #97: Red teaming
Attacking yourself, complexity and alternative analysis, policy threat modelling and Deng Xiaoping's concise strategy
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Nicklas Berild Lundblad
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Unpredictable Patterns #96: Geopolitics and tech policy
Techno-containment, health tech as geopolitical advantage, decoupling myths and the question of the next Berlin wall (or stack)
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Nicklas Berild Lundblad
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October 2022

Unpredictable Patterns #95: Reading Dreyfus
What computers can't do - 50 years later
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Nicklas Berild Lundblad
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Unpredictable Patterns #94: Making threats
The art of making effective threats, threats and regulation, threats and the economy, thinking in threats and throffers
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Nicklas Berild Lundblad
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Unpredictable patterns #93: Mechanisms of meaning
The beauty of evil plans, meaning before truth, the meaning of life, how to build a meaningful enemy and why meaning is a key component in predicting…
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Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Unpredictable Patterns #92: On surprises
On the unsurprised life not worth living, expectations, plot twists and the limits of surprise
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Nicklas Berild Lundblad
Unpredictable Patterns #91: The city as software and problem solving organisation
Organisation of groups and problem types, the age of city-sized AI:s and why we might want to bet more on cities in the future, even though they have…
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Nicklas Berild Lundblad

September 2022

Unpredictable Patterns #90: Search
From listening and reading to searching, search and space, search pessimism and optimism, search landscapes and dangerous allure of a poetry of…
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Nicklas Berild Lundblad
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Unpredictable Patterns #89: The future of language
Models, AI, Inhabiting language, language as work, language rather than intelligence and then the question of who really speaks, and why authors may be…
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Nicklas Berild Lundblad
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Unpredictable Patterns #88: Memory, history, forgetting
On narrative identities, collective memories, archives and databases, the move from oral to written to collected as well as a note on nostalgia
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Nicklas Berild Lundblad
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