The Trouble with Being the World’s Safe Haven
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Beautiful Particulars by David Weinberger
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David Weinberger published a new book, Beautiful Particulars, which was
published last week by MIT Press. The title already made me want to have
and read i...
Farewell, WordPress
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This blog has moved to https://blog.caseyhandmer.com/?moved. All the old
posts are there, with interactive versions of many of the charts. The RSS
feed is ...
Readers’ wildlife photos
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Glory be! I got two batches of wildlife photos yesterday, so we’re set for
today and Tuesday. The rest of you reprobates—get to work! Today’s batch
comes f...
AI Security
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Two weeks ago, I attended the [un]prompted AI security conference in San
Francisco. It was an excellent event: three days of very dense talks about
all a...
Does until it doesn’t and doesn’t until it does
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The result of high levels of hype about new technologies is that people
start to think that: The world has just been changed forever (which
sometimes, but ...
How Low-Dimensional Is Intelligence?
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If we only trained students in math, and then assigned students best at
math to learn our most important jobs, that might go pretty well.
Jon McNeill: How Elon Musk Makes Decisions
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Jon McNeill is the former President of Tesla and the co-founder and CEO of
DVx Ventures. Elon Musk believes speed creates a competitive advantage,
whethe...
The Fermi Paradox is a Religious Stage Trick
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The Fermi Paradox is less an instrument of inquiry than it is a salesman’s
tool, exploiting the credulity of an unsuspecting audience.The ethical
skeptic e...
Class Bound?
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from Peter Radford First, let me re-iterate my core message: Modern
democracy emerged only because society was generally prosperous enough to
support the s...
How to drown an expert
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[image: A stick figure with long hair surrounded by swarms of vague shapes
and a blanket of blue watercolor]
There’s not much about academia in the U.S. th...
Write letters!
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There is an opening to express leftwing views through writing letters to
the editors of newspapers. I’ve had some recent success. I urge my comrades
to do ...
Trump Is Definitely Considering Nuking Iran
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Source: Hotpot.aiTrump is in a tight spot with the Iran war and needs to
find a way out before the midterms. A tactical nuclear strike on Iran's
nuclear ...
Climate Etc. is now an archive
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Climate Etc. closed in June 2026 and this site is preserved as a read-only
archive. This feed will not update again -- visit the homepage for where to
find...
Some thoughts about Bondi
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Why did it happen? I think that the combination of four factors (listed
below) was close to a sufficient cause. Sufficient at least to make a
terrorist att...
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