Four Culture Fixes
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Humanity has broken its superpower of cultural evolution, at least at the
level of large cultural units, the units that set our game theoretic
equilibria o...
How to build a lunar mass driver
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Casey Handmer May 2026 What? Elon has recently (late 2025, early 2026) been
talking about building many terawatts of orbital AI compute and launching
some ...
Freiman’s Constant
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I recently asked people on Mastodon “What’s the most surprising fact
you’ve learned in the last couple of weeks?” It was a nice way to learn a
lot of int...
AI productivity boom and shorter workweeks
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from Dean Baker Productivity growth is an old concept; we’ve been seeing it
at a substantial pace for more than 200 years. Nonetheless, many elite
intellec...
Wars Are Won by Economics, Not Armies
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Michael Hudson and Ian Proud discuss why modern wars are increasingly
fought through economics rather than military force, and why sanctions
against Iran...
The Extinction of the Human Species Won't Matter
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All things come to an end eventually, including the human species. From the
perspective of the universe it won't matter, and so it also shouldn't
matter ...
Monday Message Board
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion
and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the
sandpits,...
Will you heed my warnings NOW?
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Holy crap … yesterday I was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences!
If you don’t believe me, click the link and keep scrolling down until you
hit t...
Stop and think
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In reply to Stop and think by Paolo Valdemarin This made me stop and think.
My company contains a well above average number of actual philosophers, 50%
of ...
Press Roundup from Mexico City
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La acelerada producción del capitalismo provoca deshumanización y deterioro
ambiental: David Harveypor Sebastián Campos RiveraBuzos de la noticiaAbr
15, 20...
CHI 2026 trip report: ay ay AI
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[image: wood latices hanging from the ceiling of a beige foyer.]The foyer
lattice of the International Barcelona Convention Center
There is never a good ti...
Retracing steps
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This is sort of a follow-up to the My journey series. In that, I talked
about learning programming on 8-bit computers, and progressing onto much
more power...
Spring 2026 PCAS Update: Recruiting a new Lecturer
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My last update on the University of Michigan’s Program in Computing for the
Arts and Sciences (PCAS) was in March 2024 (see post here). I did give some
upd...
Rethinking climate change
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by Nicola Scafetta My new book is now published: The Frontier of Climate
Science: Solar Variability, Natural Cycles and Model Uncertainty For more
than t...
ANALYSIS OF THE UKRAINE WAR, 2026
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Bill Kerr Q&A format: What is the situation on the battlefield? The
situation changes everyday. To keep up to date follow some of the links
here to regular...
Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01
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Nothing is ever as good as it first seems and nothing is ever as bad as it
first seems. — A best memory paraphrase of advice given to me by Vice
Admiral Jo...
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