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Art by GPT-6 It’s almost hard to remember, but just a few years ago, a lot of very smart people thought that science was in terminal decline.

I have a fun announcement today, which is that I have a new side gig.

Art by GPT-6 “No man could bind him, no, not with chains…neither could any man tame him” — Mark 5:3—4 When I was 14 or 15 — I don’t quite remember — I first got access to the World Wide Web.

Photo by Jorge Jaramillo via Wikimedia Commons I’m writing about this a little bit late, but France has been having some pretty bad riots: After widespread rioting at the weekend – estimated to have cost several hundred million dollars in property damage…

WARNING: This post contains spoilers for the movie You Can See Everything.

Art by GPT-6 Ramez Naam is, in my opinion, one of the best futurists alive.

Painting by Edouard Manet via Wikimedia Commons “Something old and wild and blind at war with man and the works of man” — Poul Anderson Years ago, I thought it was valuable for me to understand the depth of the human capacity for atrocity, so I made myself

Photo via Wikimedia Commons A little over a year ago, a bunch of people were worried that the AI data center boom would result in an epic bust, much like the railroad bust in 1873.

Image via The Nobel Prize I have a Google Doc with a long list of posts I’ve been meaning to write.

Graphic by Chessrat via Wikimedia Commons Everyone except the die-hard faithful now realizes that Donald Trump’s second presidency is a colossal failure.

Back when I was a teenager, a lot of people were very into the Left Behind series.

Photo via Wikimedia Commons “Our nation was founded to perpetuate democratic principles.

Paul Krugman is the greatest econ writer in the world, and also a legendary economist.

Photo by The White House via Wikimedia Commons There’s a large market for “Trump is bad” posts.

Photo by SK5893 via Wikimedia Commons I’m having a lot of fun writing shorter posts and aggregating interesting items these days.

I’m a little late to this story, but New York Times columnist Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote a very complex and interesting post about sending her daughter to a crappy New York City public school.

Art by GPT-6 One of my fundamental beliefs about the world is that Ramez Naam ought to blog more.

Photo by Jack Dorsey via Wikimedia.org The other day I went on the Monitoring the Situation livestream, and we talked about the history of San Francisco tech culture: I’ve never actually worked in the tech industry, but I’ve lived on and off in the Bay Ar…

I’ve been dealing with more rabbit problems today, so here’s a repost to tide you over til tomorrow.

Much to my amusement, the world seems to have discovered Effective Altruism.

Art by GPT-6, original by Zhang Zeduan In 1946, George Kennan, who was acting as the head of the U.S.

Photo by Solving Healthcare on Unsplash This week’s roundup has a lot of AI in it.

Hook ‘em, Horns.

This was the week that AI safety hit the big time.

The other day I saw a Harvard Harris poll on the favorability of various political figures in the U.S.

Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash So, Germany’s far-right party, the AfD, just won a huge landslide election victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt.

Photo via Wikimedia Commons It’s Labor Day, so here’s a post about how human labor is alive and well in the age of AI.

Art by GPT-6 Most of the debate around AI, at least in the U.S., is not about the international aspect.

Stripe Press was kind enough to send me several books it had published, and one of these was J.

Art by GPT-5.6 Howdy, folks!

Back in 2015, when I was living in Brooklyn, my apartment flooded.

Imagine the following scenario: It’s 2029.

I still remember the first time I set foot on Market Street.

Photo by Dmitry Vechorko on Unsplash It’s hardly news that Americans are not happy with the state of their nation.