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  "content_md": "Came across the phrase “post-mortal” in qntm’s Fine Structure. Wondering: is post-\\[insert concept critical to current reality\\], pound-for-pound, the most generative prompt for protocolish, strange-rules-driven fiction and non-fiction? The proof might be the proliferation of post-Xs.\n\nPost-literacy is a great one; it immediately stirs up intriguing effects. Post-modernism and post-rationalism are a bit niche but still powerful. qntm’s post-mortal is a more interesting version of transhumanism to me. The abundance folks are all about post-scarcity. Crypto’s about post-money. AI alignment is post-humanity. Universal basic income is post-employment.\n\nHow about we try it on some less canon concepts? I won’t elaborate on them, but just observe the chain of ideas they set off.\n\n- Post-perception\n- Post-fertility\n- Post-media\n- Post-energy\n- Post-property\n- Post-law\n- Post-violence\n- Post-capital/labour/technology\n- Post-suffering\n- Post-individual\n- Post-physics",
  "content_html": "<p>Came across the phrase “post-mortal” in qntm’s Fine Structure. Wondering: is post-[insert concept critical to current reality], pound-for-pound, the most generative prompt for protocolish, strange-rules-driven fiction and non-fiction? The proof might be the proliferation of post-Xs.</p>\n<p>Post-literacy is a great one; it immediately stirs up intriguing effects. Post-modernism and post-rationalism are a bit niche but still powerful. qntm’s post-mortal is a more interesting version of transhumanism to me. The abundance folks are all about post-scarcity. Crypto’s about post-money. AI alignment is post-humanity. Universal basic income is post-employment.</p>\n<p>How about we try it on some less canon concepts? I won’t elaborate on them, but just observe the chain of ideas they set off.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Post-perception</li>\n<li>Post-fertility</li>\n<li>Post-media</li>\n<li>Post-energy</li>\n<li>Post-property</li>\n<li>Post-law</li>\n<li>Post-violence</li>\n<li>Post-capital/labour/technology</li>\n<li>Post-suffering</li>\n<li>Post-individual</li>\n<li>Post-physics</li>\n</ul>",
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