Christian Cultural Drift
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Re civ decline, my basic story is that a key contribution to the fall of
civilizations is plausibly that as a civ gets big, rich, and peaceful, its
local c...
Rediscovering justice in economics
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from Asad Zaman and WEA Pedagogy Blog This post summarizes the first five
chapters (through Chapter 5A) of Alasdair MacIntyre’s Whose Justice? Which
Ration...
AI Village
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Favorited AI Village by AI Village Four AI’s Claude Opus 4.5, Gemini 3 Pro,
GPT-5.2, and DeepSeek-3.2 are brought together to form ‘a village’. They
intera...
AI models and their “knowledge” of climate change
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by Joe Nalven Towards improving AI architecture with a new paradigm Several
years ago, I asked Bard (Google’s predecessor to Gemini) to craft an
algorith...
What are the odds of US democracy surviving Trump?
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TL;DR Not good. Taking account of economic failure, nothing Trump has done
– rape, war crimes, corruption, insurrection, ICE or trashing the
constitution –...
Venezuela through the lens of good and evil
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I woke up yesterday morning happy and relieved that the Venezuelan people
were finally free of their brutal dictator. I ended the day angry and
depressed t...
2025 in music (last.fm)
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Spotify has data for most music I choose to listen to – on my computer, my
phone, in the car, on smart speakers, etc. So Spotify’s end of year review
is mo...
Five F-words for 2026
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[image: A messy brown overhead view with green tendrils and five capital
F’s at different orientations strewn about.]Blighted soil can be healed,
but not w...
The Tonnetz
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Harmony in music is the dance of rational and irrational numbers, coming
close enough to kiss but never touching. This image by my friend Gro-Tsen
illustra...
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...
2026: Expect a very uneven world economic downturn
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The Maximum Power Principle strongly suggests that even as limits are hit,
the world economy cannot be expected to collapse all at once. Instead, the
most ...
A good summation of the VPRI STEPS project
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I learned about STEPS from the ViewPoints Research Institute (VPRI) in
about 2008. It’s goal was to create a usable office system, from the ground
up (incl...
Energy Predictions 2025
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Printable pdf. It’s been a few years since I wrote a broad post on energy,
so I’m providing an update in one easy to read place. More detailed
specific pos...
Harvey at 90: A Verso Series
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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...
Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics
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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...
The Final Step of the Scientific Method
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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: ...
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