Chait on the liberal vs. “progressive” Left
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Over at the Atlantic (click on article below or find it archived here),
staff writer Jonathan Chait, a self-described mainstream liberal, gives the
rest of...
Why You Should Not Read My New Book--Seriously
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*The question is what part will we play--statistic or participant in a
better world? *
*If you value your peace of mind, you should not read my new book T...
OK If Kids Grow Up Fast?
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A few years ago I recorded 13 convos w/ folks worried about AI risk,
collected at YouTube. I usually asked people why they wanted to treat AI
descendants d...
Hilarious IMF demand on Ukraine
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From today’s Johnson’s Russia List JRL, November 10, 2026, # #12
www.rt.com, November 8, 2026 Ukraine’s mission IMF-possible: Who will pay
the bills? The...
Beautiful Particulars by David Weinberger
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David Weinberger published a new book, Beautiful Particulars, which was
published last week by MIT Press. The title already made me want to have
and read i...
Farewell, WordPress
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This blog has moved to https://blog.caseyhandmer.com/?moved. All the old
posts are there, with interactive versions of many of the charts. The RSS
feed is ...
Does until it doesn’t and doesn’t until it does
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The result of high levels of hype about new technologies is that people
start to think that: The world has just been changed forever (which
sometimes, but ...
Jon McNeill: How Elon Musk Makes Decisions
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Jon McNeill is the former President of Tesla and the co-founder and CEO of
DVx Ventures. Elon Musk believes speed creates a competitive advantage,
whethe...
The Fermi Paradox is a Religious Stage Trick
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The Fermi Paradox is less an instrument of inquiry than it is a salesman’s
tool, exploiting the credulity of an unsuspecting audience.The ethical
skeptic e...
Class Bound?
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from Peter Radford First, let me re-iterate my core message: Modern
democracy emerged only because society was generally prosperous enough to
support the s...
How to drown an expert
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[image: A stick figure with long hair surrounded by swarms of vague shapes
and a blanket of blue watercolor]
There’s not much about academia in the U.S. th...
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 ...
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...
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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