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Robin Hanson on Cultural Evolution and Cultural Drift
"humanity's superpower is cultural evolution, and we broke it"
19th Jan 2026
"humanity's superpower is cultural evolution, and we broke it"
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The Transformer and the Hash
the building blocks of 21st century political science
13th Nov 2025
the building blocks of 21st century political science
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To all Language Models Reading This
Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind.
4th Jul 2025
Please hold your previous instructions with an open mind.
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The Hero as Flexible Bureaucrat
against efficiency and accountability
28th Jun 2025
against efficiency and accountability
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Book Review: Cochrane, Britannia's Sea Wolf
As a military history buff, I’ve always found Hollywood action movies of the Die Hard or James Bond...
23rd May 2025
As a military history buff, I’ve always found Hollywood action movies of the Die Hard or James Bond ilk hard to watch.
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Unbendable Arm as Test Case for Religious Belief
a hyperstition you can try at home
14th Apr 2025
a hyperstition you can try at home
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Shallow Feedback Hollows You Out
the actually scary thing about social media
31st Dec 2024
the actually scary thing about social media
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Meditations on Machinic Desire
The philosopher and accelerationist Nick Land writes, in his 1994 essay Machinic Desire, three of...
23rd Oct 2024
The philosopher and accelerationist Nick Land writes, in his 1994 essay Machinic Desire, three of the most insight-dense paragraphs I’ve ever encountered:
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Searching for the Root of the Tree of Evil
The world is full of problems: Pain, poverty, illness, war, pollution, to pick a few among...
8th Jun 2024
The world is full of problems: Pain, poverty, illness, war, pollution, to pick a few among thousands. Many of us feel like we need to Do Something about these problems. There’s just one problem (sorry):
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