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The Limits to Growth Are Interplanetary
For centuries, men have believed that rising wealth and population would soon deplete all available resources, causing mass death and social collapse…
Aug 16
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The Academic Culture of Fraud
In 2006, Sylvain Lesné and seven coauthors published a paper on Alzheimer’s disease, “A specific amyloid-beta protein assembly in the brain impairs…
Aug 2
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July 2024
America And The Future
Americans are notorious idealists, but our ideals haven’t stayed within this country. The American conceptions of virtues— democracy, freedom of speech…
Jul 4
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June 2024
The Fourth Form Of Government
Traditionally we think of government as coming in three forms.
Jun 12
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May 2024
Looking Beyond the Veil
In A Study of History, Arnold Toynbee the Younger says that every big religion or ideology starts as esoteric mysticism with profound, transformative…
May 1
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April 2024
Computers Are Overrated
Since the ancestors of homo sapiens first made tools out of rocks and sticks and grass, society has been transformed by the development of ever more…
Apr 24
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The DDoS Attack Of Academic Bullshit
Not long ago, during a discussion with a Zoomer colleague about how to find research material, I realized that he had never experienced internet search…
Apr 10
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How To Learn History
Everyone has a theory of history which forms the lens through which they see the world.
Apr 3
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March 2024
Probability Is Not A Substitute For Reasoning
Several Rationalists objected to my recent “Against AGI Timelines” post, in which I argued that “the arguments advanced for particular timelines [to…
Mar 6
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February 2024
There Are More Things In Heaven And Earth
The celestial origin of meteoric iron had been recognized at an early date, although it was disregarded subsequently. A fall of meteorites in 644 B.C…
Feb 28
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The Three Chinese Civilizations
Historians usually divide the history of China into three rough periods, “Ancient China”, “Imperial China”, and “Modern China”.
Feb 21
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