AI Pause Regs Look Risky
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People dislike AI for many reasons, but one extreme fear is that AIs will
escape control from those who make, buy, or rent them, and then hurt others.
Social Media Is Pointless Slag
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*The irony here is we're being "consumed" by the process of "consuming"
social media. *
*If we want to understand why a system generates unfavorable outpu...
AIs as Modern Genies
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*This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in
Lawfare.*
In April, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent conducting a routine t...
What about Lindsay Clancy?
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By now most of you know about the Lindsay Clancy case, but I’ll briefly
reiterate it. Clancy, then 32 years old, says she was afflicted with
postpartum psy...
Saturday Is For Chores
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Walking in the city center of ‘s-Hertogenbosch this afternoon, I saw this
person fixing their bike. In the midst of shoppers, tools were spread out
and foc...
Keynes’s Unfinished Monetary Revolution
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An oil shock becomes a debt crisis, then a political rupture. The coming
defaults may finally break the creditor rules built into the dollar system.
The p...
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 ...
LLMs and self-referentiality
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I woke up yesterday with the following thoughts, which are probably either
obvious or dumb. A central thesis that many readers, including me, took
from Dou...
Stonehenge I Moon Circle and ECDO Theory
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Our speculation in this article, particularly as it pertains to Structure 5
of the earliest rendition of Stonehenge — a moon circle, rather than a sun
circ...
Steve Jobs in Exile
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We all know the Steve Jobs who came back in the late 1990s and saved Apple
from becoming a footnote. And we’ve all heard the story of how, in 1985, he
wa...
Math after AI
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For a very long time, my favorite activity was to sit and think about
mathematical questions. Staring at a blank sheet of paper, trying to grasp
in my mind...
A week of fika: ACM ICER 2026
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A peaceful Wednesday night by the water.
By the end of this academic year, I needed a vacation. It was a year of
major disruptions to my federal research f...
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...
In Defense of the Marginal Baby
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This Father’s Day, I took some notes on parenting and put them together
here. The purpose of this post is to strongly advocate for people to
increment thei...
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...
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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