Locklin on science

Propaganda is one of those things which has obviously improved in its execution over time.

Saga of the Volsungs translated by Jesse Byock.

One of the cult youtube channels of machinists is the channel of Dan Gelbart.

Imagine you are world hegemon and some shitty little country sidles up to you with an idea of making war on some other country.

The statistical picture of quantum mechanics is an idea I had in my mind more or less as the correct picture, while occasionally simultaneously holding the gaseous nonsense that the Schroedinger equation somehow describes things the individual particles a…

I ran across this essay, Freddie deBoer offering a bet to Scott Alexander that the AI singularity isn’t coming in the next 3 years, based on a decent decent set of economic measurements: https://substack.com/home/post/p-187862732 I used to find it somewhat

Getting the best of it by David Sklansky.

I was always a fan of de Broglie and Bohm’s “pilot wave” idea.

An airplane is a giant tin can.

I’ve gone through Khrennikov’s “Beyond Quantum” book and write some notes for the crowd.

One of the interesting things to contemplate is the scale of the internal combustion engine.