Is the biggest fear of AI, the fear of AI?
At the Disappointment Institute, we observe a new development and read a great artic by Cam Pedersen. “The Singularity will Occur on a Tuesday” is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek, data-oriented exploration of the idea of the technological singularity in which he states that singularity is not a sudden machine-led explosion of intelligence but a human at
The Forecast of Futility
As tradition dictates, The Disappointment Institute gazes into the near future, not to foresee progress, but to map the contours of its inevitable letdown.
The most disappointing person of the year Award 2025.
As the year limps toward its conclusion, The Disappointment Institute once again opens nominations for the coveted Most Disappointing Person of the Year Award — a modest recognition of extraordinary underachievement.
Why the lingo of spirituality leads to nothing.
It’s not the spirituality that’s the problem — it’s the grammar of transcendence. Spiritual people don’t talk; they vibrate sentences.
The Minor Triumphs Issue — celebrating things that barely worked.
This month, we turn our gaze — not upward toward greatness, but gently sideways — toward that rare and undervalued species of success: the minor triumph.
X-mas, the ritual of Anticipated Disappointment
As the season of compulsory joy approaches, The Disappointment Institute would like to remind everyone that disappointment, too, has divine origins.
Angry white man
Every age produces its defining figure of disappointment. Ours, regrettably, is the Angry White Man — a creature of grievance, gadgetry, and gym membership that expired in 2018. Once, he imagined himself the protagonist of civilisation.