Books That Travelled
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A few weeks ago Y and I visited the printing art fair in town. The local
second hand book shop had, as curiosa, put up a number of frames containing
things...
AI and Voter Engagement
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Social media has been a familiar, even mundane, part of life for nearly two
decades. It can be easy to forget it was not always that way.
In 2008, social...
Maverick Dark Castle
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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...
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,...
News Error Markets
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I left grad school (physics & phil at U Chicago) back in 1984, to move to
Silicon Valley to work on the then AI boom (which I did at Lockheed and
NASA), an...
Koli Calling 2025: Alliances of the Artificial
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[image: The rear view of the conference room, with 80 heads, partially
obscured by the edge of a large wooden stump sculpture.]The back of the
room, where ...
Inequality Then and Now: Now It's Too Late
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*In refusing to recognize that inequality had the potential to bring down
the entire system, our delay has made that reckoning inevitable.*
*The theme her...
Quantum computing: too much to handle!
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Tomorrow I’m headed to Berkeley for the Inkhaven blogging residency, whose
participants need to write one blog post per day or get kicked out. I’ll be
ther...
The Standard Model – Part 3
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Physics is really bizarre and wonderful. Here I start explaining why the
Standard Model has U(1) × SU(2) × SU(3) as its symmetry group. But I don't
assume ...
Some musings on reality motivated by the age of AI
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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 ...
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...
Natural Selection of Bad Science. Part II
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by John Ridgway In an earlier essay [1] I explained how positive feedbacks
can lead to potentially problematic scientific mono-cultures. I also
acknowled...
New book: The Story of Capital
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My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How
Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by Verso.
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: ...
Good News Ukraine.
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Sorting out the real situation in the Russo Ukrainian war
https://billkerr1947.github.io/ukraineWar/ “Artillery Conquers, Infantry
Occupies” and drones are...
Supersonic electric flight
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This post is inspired by the recent press release about the Rolls Royce
Accel, an experimental electric aircraft being built to attempt the
electric speed ...
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