Conversations with heterodox economists
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from Lars Syll Jamie Morgan: To a member of the public it must seem weird
that it is possible to state, as you do, such fundamental criticism of an
entire ...
Adventures with Deep Research
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How my AI report on housework started well, then went off the rails I’ve
long been interested in the topic of housework, as you can see from this
Crooked T...
Why We Fail
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*No wonder the world seems deranged--it is deranged by the immense strength
of an Old Guard clinging onto power by any means available even as the
world ar...
I do not need “likes”
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I do appreciate readers “liking” posts or comments, but the problem is that
each one generates an email to me, and there are many of them. The result
is th...
AI vs. Human Drivers
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Two competing arguments are making the rounds. The first is by a
neurosurgeon in the *New York Times*. In an op-ed that honestly sounds like
it was paid ...
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...
My Big Ask
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I’ve noticed after several years writing on cultural drift, I’ve yet to
tempt anyone to work with me on understanding or fixing it, nor to
indirectly suppo...
Theory and AI Alignment
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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...
Pride and posting
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[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...
If NAPLAN was football, we’d cheer the goals
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Image source: MS PPT
This week, 2025 school National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy
(NAPLAN) data was made publicly available via the My Scho...
Too many promises; too few future physical goods
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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...
Summer Research at Topos
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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...
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...
Back to the future!
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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 ...
Forth: A beginning?
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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...
Captain Scott’s 1912 Antarctic tragedy
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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...
Cowboy Capitalism in Central Asia
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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...
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...
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...
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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