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Theory and AI Alignment - The following is based on a talk that I gave (remotely) at the UK AI Safety Institute Alignment Workshop on October 29, and which I then procrastinated for...10 hours ago
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The Money Ick - Recently Kalshi’s CEO Mansour said: “[Our] long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion”.13 hours ago
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Pride and posting - [image: The university district in Seattle, with a post rain shower rainbow amidst a cloudy sky.]A view from the UW Tower, on a sunny Autumn day. Like most...1 day ago
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Friday Squid Blogging: Vampire Squid Genome - The vampire squid (*Vampyroteuthis infernalis*) has the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced: more than 11 billion base pairs. That’s more than twice...1 day ago
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Greed, Centralization, Monopoly, Ruin - *Greed is good up to the point that it delivers ruin. * *The primary characteristic of this era is the purposeful confusion of profit and greed, as if the...1 day ago
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Manifold Podcast Episode #100! Jeffrey Epstein, Israel, and Elite Power, with Murtaza Hussain - Murtaza Hussain is a reporter for Drop Site News, which has broken important stories based on recently obtained Epstein emails.1 day ago
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If NAPLAN was football, we’d cheer the goals - Image source: MS PPT This week, 2025 school National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) data was made publicly available via the My Scho...2 days ago
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They need to make you hate some group - As soon as you start judging people as a group, the rightists win.2 days ago
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Too many promises; too few future physical goods - The world is filled with financial promises, including loans, pensions, and even the market value of stocks. So far, the system seems to be working, but in...3 days ago
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How to Think Like a World-Class Marketer | Rory Sutherland - Ogilvy Vice Chairman Rory Sutherland reveals the formula for persuasion, why people make decisions and how you can use psychology to your advantage. Ror...3 days ago
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Scaling Career and Family: Systems Thinking, Public School, Home Enrichment - Originally posted on November 29, 2025 by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran When asked on The Cheeky Pint podcast how we educate our children, my husband Casey H...3 days ago
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Trump RX: The merger of pharma corruption and Trump crazy - from Lars Syll I haven’t given my diatribe on cheap drugs for a while, but what the hell. It’s a huge deal and no one in a position of power gives a damn (...3 days ago
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Creating a measure of Critical Reflection and Agency in Computing - I stopped blogging while I was on sabbatical because I had to focus on finishing the second edition of Learner-Centered Design of Computing Education. And ...6 days ago
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Will fewer kids mean fewer scientists - I’ve been seeing more and more alarmism about the idea that, on current demographic trends, the world’s population might shrink to a billion in a century o...6 days ago
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Summer Research at Topos - You can now apply for the 2026 Summer Research Associate program at the Topos Institute! This is a great opportunity. Details and instructions on how to ap...1 week ago
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Harvey at 90: A Verso Series - From the Verso website: This month, in honour of David Harvey‘s ninetieth birthday, we’re publishing a series of short essays on David’s unparalleled contr...1 week ago
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Back to the future! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6CLlNfjoew Times Radio’ Apr 17, 2025 Interview with General Ben Hodges Trump’s ‘failure’ in Ukraine risks war with Russia ...2 weeks ago
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Forth: A beginning? - I searched for many years for something that felt like a baseline, that I could present as a basis for learning and exploration re. system programming, and...2 weeks ago
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Captain Scott’s 1912 Antarctic tragedy - by Mila Zinkova Reassessing The Coldest March by Susan Solomon On Thursday, 29 March 1912, Captain Scott (1914) made the final entry in his Journal. He w...2 weeks ago
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Cowboy Capitalism in Central Asia - Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff unpack Trump’s 35b dollar Central Asia push, Chevron’s ecocide, BRICS vs G7 and AI fake videos stealing their work. The p...2 weeks ago
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Maverick Dark Castle - On Saturday, I ran the Maverick Dark Castle: an 11km night time trail run around Corfe Castle. I’d not done a night run before, and had never run a trail r...2 weeks ago
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Incentivising War Crimes: The High Cost of International Humanitarianism - Wars have never been the concern only of their combatants. Other states pay close attention to the geo-political implications and opportunities created b...3 weeks ago
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Some musings on reality motivated by the age of AI - Is there anyone at home? Is the chess program on your phone conscious? Is ChatGPT5 a conscious agent? Will ChatGPT9 be conscious? Most people would answer ...4 weeks ago
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Bill Gates helps break the moral monopoly against fossil fuels - Bill Gates’s humanist challenge to the anti-fossil-fuel climate establishment was only possible because the “moral monopoly” against fossil fuels has been ...4 weeks ago
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Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics - Crossposted on lesswrong Modern humans first emerged about 100,000 years ago. For the next 99,800 years or so, nothing happened. Well, not quite nothing. T...4 weeks ago
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A Prophetic Poem about Artificial Intelligence Written in 1961 - In early September a poem about AI started circulating on social media, with a publication date of 1961. At first it just seemed too cute to me and I thou...4 weeks ago
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Gaza peace plans, United Nations reconstitution, collective security, Ukraine, and struggle for democracy - Arthur Dent discusses the Gaza peace plans, the need for a reconstituted independent United Nations that can implement collective security, the struggle fo...5 weeks ago
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ACAMIS 2025 Resources by Sylvia Martinez & Gary Stager - New 2025 Materials & Programming Environment Links The Eight Big Ideas Behind Constructionism by Seymour Papert (in multiple languages) Logo books, artic...1 month ago
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The Final Step of the Scientific Method - An ideology that cannot be defended by means of evidence and deductive logic, will inevitably be enforced by violence. You shall know them by their habit: ...2 months ago
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Complicating the IPCC Planck Feedback, Plank #4 of Climate Resilience Theory - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has an idea about how the Earth cools itself: when the planet’s surface warms up, it sends more heat...6 months ago
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