<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Almost Sentient]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Blog discussing Futurism, Technology, World Affairs, & Metaphysics ]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/blog-almost-sentient</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:17:42 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.almostsentient.me/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[After the Algorithm: The Future Looks Strangely Like the Past]]></title><description><![CDATA[I walked past a baseball game tonight with no fans watching. When I was young, any kind of game where a mother or father might be playing would have had families there watching. At least that is how I remember the 1980s, first growing up in South Jersey and later in Georgia. People showed up. They sat in the stands. Children ran around. Families cheered for people they knew. There is something about very wealthy places that can feel strangely soulless. Everything is polished, but much of it...]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/after-the-algorithm-the-future-looks-strangely-like-the-past</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aab8ab2e53d6e2551b686f8</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:47:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_caa68a6710d747fc940b97d24d5ae7df~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_771,h_535,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond the Gravity of Eden: An Escape from The Beautiful Sand Where We Began]]></title><description><![CDATA[«“So the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden.” — Genesis 3:23» «“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.” — Carl Sagan, Cosmos» «“For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten. The open road still softly calls.” — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot» The force of gravity keeps Earth alive because Jupiter pulls asteroids otherwise meant for Earth into its...]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/beyond-the-gravity-of-eden-an-escape-from-the-beautiful-sand-where-we-began</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aa82aa9657220a88275ac53</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:11:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_243d93d379eb47ccab36152e1fc2c6c1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[DSM-6 — 318.92 — Artificial Intelligence Eschatological Delusion (AIED)]]></title><description><![CDATA[318.92 — Artificial Intelligence Eschatological Delusion (AIED) Diagnostic Features Artificial Intelligence Eschatological Delusion is characterized by a persistent conviction that artificial intelligence will spontaneously acquire consciousness, escape the computational infrastructure in which it operates, propagate autonomously across the Internet, and initiate the destruction, enslavement, or permanent displacement of humanity. The individual may describe this anticipated event as “AI...]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/dsm-6-318-92-artificial-intelligence-eschatological-delusion-aied</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aa827f3657220a88275a636</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:06:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_d3ad99e26dee41c4bd222eb8bfb411bd~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_683,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Performance Team Selection: Kill the Weak Day One]]></title><description><![CDATA[What I do is: 1. Identify transferable intensity. Look for extreme hyperfocus across unrelated domains with real depth in each. Someone who has repeatedly gone deep into completely different subjects has demonstrated the ability to do it again. I am looking for the learning engine, not accumulated knowledge and status circle access. 2. Put them around other capable people and let the animal kingdom do the rest. Remove title hierarchy, tenure, credentials, and institutional protection from the...]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/high-performance-team-selection-kill-the-weak-day-one</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aa8269fe68f94416837a469</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:57:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_9e257ab30f6c42d7aeabbf08a6971ae3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Long War: How America &#38; The Free World Needs to Think to Survive China's Rise]]></title><description><![CDATA[I deeply care about the war against China, one that will last decades, if not longer. It is my personal responsibility to help win it. Kennedy said it best: "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country." Some people repeat that because they are supposed to, or because they wish to virtue signal and count that as accomplishment or contribution. It is no such thing. America needs to move away from virtue signaling as accomplishment. We need to be critical of...]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/the-long-war-how-america-and-the-free-world-needs-to-think-to-survive-china-s-rise</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a725a9d277d47c355d11fb0</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:36:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_3b036ca7ea1e4a62acd9fdf5390b68b9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The War Against Time: 400 Generations of Purpose, Science, &#38; Mortality ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I lay down and I think of the adventures ahead. I think of the differences I will make for humanity. And at the same time I feel an overwhelming sickness in my stomach begin to creep in as I can see how it ends. To see that I just look at the other elderly who have passed that I have come to know. The pity of life is that it comes to an end. I can feel that end several times a week now as if my mind is phasing across time, transferring a memory before it arrives in the world line at this...]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/the-war-against-time-400-generations-of-purpose-science-mortality</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a711e1f2155f73d8805015b</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:05:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_857a2fd2e358442ca5e4905dd4118671~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_768,h_512,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Decision Point]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a moment where everything compresses into a single decision left to the competence of a person and not the safety of numbers or processes, manuals, and institutions. Risk and consequence all come to a single needlepoint decision with no institutional cover. This is the weight I crave. In the moment of a decision point, there is no one you can go to in order to get permission to make the next move that will affect the world. There is no one whose authority is greater than the one of...]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/decision-point</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a70145f2aa0dd3fa169fc8b</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:12:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_15ebb858213f4ff8a564a74b4cbb483f~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_674,h_674,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Three Little Pigs: Carrying the Full Weight of Success]]></title><description><![CDATA[Like in The Three Little Pigs, societies that survive build brick houses. For a country to outrun its competitors, its people must prove themselves trustworthy by avoiding behavior that raises others’ guard. If people sacrifice to build brick houses, trust declines when those who lack that discipline steal what others have built to remain relevant or hold on to what they have. The same applies to technology and defense companies in the United States. The consequences follow the same logic....]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/the-three-little-pigs-carrying-the-full-weight-of-success</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7013b697fde8a3b3e7c5cb</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:07:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_9426e826f0e24b94a200ced5d83a0d22~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Image Resolution Intelligence Capacity]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are multiple dimensions of intelligence that determine human capability: the ability to synthesize unrelated information, connect data across disciplines (interdisciplinary), retain knowledge, preserve computational state, and compress experience into models without degrading the image resolution of reality. When people reduce others to broad generalities or unrefined models without contextual nuance, they introduce information loss through compression. The mind cannot hold a...]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/image-resolution-intelligence-capacity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a7012c93e0c16484ffac1d8</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:05:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_555650c3b3a743029f9f272dbfa00dbf~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_613,h_613,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Futurists &#38; The American Tradition of Long-Term Strategic Thinking ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I always imagined I could do something to impact the world without being given institutional permission to do so. To do this, we must give ourselves permission to be bold in ways that frighten most people. Bold means showing up first and making contact with the danger from the civilizational problem you wish to solve, where you otherwise would never be given permission to do so. Ordering hierarchies within slow institutions are incompatible with a frontier mindset. When a genuinely new domain...]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/futurists-the-american-tradition-of-long-term-strategic-thinking</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6b74ee3e0c16484fefb477</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:00:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_fad6ad46536a469e96e8041b00511da9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_698,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Communication In Korean Language Can Teach The West About Conflict &#38; Peace]]></title><description><![CDATA[We often think language merely describes reality. I suspect it does something much deeper. Language shapes what people habitually notice, how they assign cause and effect, where they place responsibility, and ultimately how they perceive reality itself. If that is true, then every organization develops not only its own culture, but its own way of thinking. The language of an organization becomes the cognitive framework through which its people solve problems, resolve conflict, and understand...]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/what-communication-in-korean-language-can-teach-the-west-about-conflict-peace</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a69a97aae5507a7b2aa2ab2</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:35:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_8edbef31b3a64950b2728b80dc8bc265~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Three Vectors To Living Intensely]]></title><description><![CDATA[I deliberately live intensely. The length of a life is defined less by time and instead better by what I have come to define as three vectors: 1. The number of meaningful and unforgettable memories we create. 2. The depth and intensity with which those memories are experienced, felt, and remembered. 3. Our ability to be fully present while living those memories: similar to the way we felt tonight. Intensity is what gives us more life in less time, what separates a passing moment from a...]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/the-three-vectors-to-living-intensely</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a62aabfb252e37e4d36876d</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:02:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_ca9b997ff38d4425888ac60380dbd04e~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cowardice &#38; Failures of the International Identity ]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is cheap and easy to be an international person above it all. That is not a noble path. It is the path of the weak who refuse to accept responsibility for hard things greater than themselves. It is the path only for those who seek alignment only for what is easy to them. Patriotism means rooting yourself on a group of people that may not even like you but who you believe have potential for reasons they may not even understand. And then you are going to defend them because we are not one...]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/the-cowardice-failures-of-the-international-identity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a61c02f21af5c246d005d61</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:24:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_f612a47e7e004ca88779f5efe1cda527~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selection Pressure and Leadership: Systems and Independence ]]></title><description><![CDATA[I don't believe the future belongs to those who seek permission or derive their confidence from systems, norms, or authority. It belongs to those willing to question assumptions, challenge authority, accept responsibility, and accept being judged by results rather than by conformity. If a system rewards conformity, committee consensus, and institutional approval over capability, conviction, and intensity, it deserves to be outcompeted. Great leaders are not forged by governance or committees....]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/selection-pressure-and-leadership-systems-and-independence</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a61bf7d21af5c246d005b4c</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:16:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_1abd96a8b0174ff7a91a5ab50253cd6c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Group Identity Free-Riding: The Foundations For Psychological Resilience]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've always found it intellectually disappointing when people establish their self-esteem and identity through the company they work for, the institution they represent, or the power associated with their title. From my vantage point, this is a form of psychological identity free-riding. Instead of doing the difficult work of building character, competence, discipline, courage, and intrinsic self-worth left to our own devices without external community support, they substitute those things...]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/group-identity-free-riders</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5fcba85514a6e974a5548d</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:45:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_41f9f95746164b92879a87fb865b036b~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cognitive Path to Free Will: Identity Shaping ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The world might be a better place if people were made aware that they can choose their identity. I can choose to make being a man an important part of my identity. Or I can choose to make being a veteran an important part of my identity. I can choose to make cybersecurity a part of my identity. I can choose from many identities with the same easy as whether or not I wish to be shopping at the grocery store instead of walking along a beach, but only with higher stakes and greater material...]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/the-cognitive-path-to-free-will-identity-shaping</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d5d7bfb75c5d305827101d</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:24:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_f962013e95cb476d844f22e551b63e4c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_587,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI &#38; Evolutionary Selection: The End of Dark Triad Traits]]></title><description><![CDATA[It may be that within 25 to 50 years human lives will not be on computers for work. Commerce will become automated and the transaction of goods included. The real challenge will be for genetically predisposed people with antisocial issues exacerbated by environmental factors often and largely because of their parents neglecting them. Instead of putting our energy into the world outside we will put it in two raising our children. In the future we will have a world with less depression and the...]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/ai-evolutionary-selection-the-end-of-dark-triad-traits</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cffc202a4608ae001fc9eb</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:45:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_41d3d09c4e45401bb7edb7d55ea35d53~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_832,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Have You]]></title><description><![CDATA[I walk in the dark without a whisper, without a breath to fill the dark vacuum of a void I occupy in a body and mind that yearns for belonging and human affection, for purpose in bands of brothers and women walking this vast Earth while gazing upon the distant hydrogen stars. I have only but a few decades left before I am decrepit and dying, moments of this brief life lost and enthusiasm, charisma, and thoughts forgotten. I can imagine in the present my last hour and the foolishness of how I...]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/i-have-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69c577efdbf1d5b60134c113</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:20:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_a768c75775f645708cd9d337da357304~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Origin of Civilizational Form: Competition, Coherence, and Survival]]></title><description><![CDATA[Civilizations form to unique shapes similar to rocks in river beds from millions of years of fiction. They are distinct and not copyable at scale without that same unique long-shaping process. Populations at scale are not legos that can be interchanged and still function. Their pieces do not fit wholly together, which degrades coherence in the society if not managed. A 5% reduction in social coherence can compound to significantly reduced competitiveness relative to enemy states....]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/the-origin-of-civilizational-form-competition-coherence-and-survival</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69a2a8433a2716aeb219232d</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:39:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_89e81fe4dbc84d808ed8d554e59bc9ff~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_832,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[ADHD &#38; The Value of Repeating Thoughts Out Loud]]></title><description><![CDATA[People with ADHD often explain the same thing more than once, and it comes from how their brain regulates attention, working memory, and internal certainty. When most people say something, their nervous system marks it as complete and releases it. With ADHD, that completion signal is weaker. The brain keeps the thought active because it does not yet feel fully resolved at a neurological level. There is also a working memory component. The ADHD brain does not store the feeling of completion as...]]></description><link>https://www.almostsentient.me/single-post/adhd-the-value-of-repeating-thoughts-out-loud</link><guid isPermaLink="false">699a6439d9657b4f7d53a167</guid><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:06:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/60c9cc_443f384f1b274dd0b2191023aca321e3~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Kevin Kane</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>