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Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later

2

The Specter Of Neuralese

3

Your Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt

4

Mysteries Of AI Generalization

5

King Ludd

6

AI Superforecasting Should Transform The FDA

7

Royce On San Francisco

8

God Help Us, Let's Try To Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques

9

Your Book Review: The Tale Of Genji

10

Absurd Adventure And Amygdalectomy Advocacy

11

Nicholas Decker In Hell

12

Your Book Review: Thomas Urquhart's Translation Of Rabelais

13

Highlights From The Comments On The Substack Religion Debate

14

Re: Re: Re: Pritchard On Liberal Happiness

15

Your Book Review: A Residence Of 21 Years In The Sandwich Islands

16

Why I'm Staying Out Of The Substack Religion Debate

17

Your Book Review: The Escape Artist

18

The Quest For Caffeine You Can Have At Night

19

The Foothills Of Bay Area House Party

20

MacGregor The Bridge Builder

21

Open Questions On Open Weights

22

The Beauty Of Settled Science

23

Does Forecasting Have Room At The Top?

24

Your Book Review: The Epic Of Gilgamesh

25

Highlights From The Discourse On The Hugging Face Incident

26

Links For July 2026 (Part 2)

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Psychology Research Is Mostly Fine

28

The Hugging Face Incident

29

Your Book Review: Breakdown In Pakistan

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Links For July 2026 (Part 1)

31

Contra Pritchard On Liberal Happiness

32

Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures

33

Against "Stochastic Terrorism"

34

AI Chip Regulation Is Not A Dystopian Surveillance State

35

Introducing Plan A

36

Your Book Review: The Book Of Abraham

37

The AI Superforecasters Are Here

38

Chip Off The Old Block

39

The Metaculus Threat To Democracy Index

40

Should People Avoid Whole-Body Screening Info?

41

Preliminary Thoughts On The Midjourney Scanner

42

Waiting For The Miracle

43

Never Cross a River Four Feet Deep on Average

44

My AI Opinions

45

Book Review: The Dialectical Imagination

46

Use AI This Election

47

New Paradigms Won't Save You

48

The Types Of Candidate You Find In The California Gubernatorial Race

49

The Sigmoids Won't Save You

50

Nostalgebraist's Hydrogen Jukeboxes

51

Three Model Organisms For Taste

52

Contra Everyone On Taste

53

What Deontological Bars?

54

Your Attempt To Solve Debate Will Not Work

55

Links For April 2026

56

Half A Month Of Consolation Writing Advice

57

Orban Was Bad, Even Though We Don't Have A Perfect Word For His Badness

58

Against The Concept Of Telescopic Altruism

59

A Buddhist Sun Miracle?

60

How Natural Tradeoff And Failure Components?

61

Every Debate On Pausing AI

62

Being John Rawls

63

Support Your Local Collaborator

64

Shameless Guesses, Not Hallucinations

65

Last Rights

66

SEIU Delenda Est

67

Mantic Monday: Groundhog Day

68

"All Lawful Use": Much More Than You Wanted To Know

69

Next-Token Predictor Is An AI's Job, Not Its Species

70

The Pentagon Threatens Anthropic

71

Malicious Streetlight Effects Vs. "Directional Correctness" - A Semi-Non-Apology

72

Book Review Contest Rules 2026

73

Crime As Proxy For Disorder

74

Record Low Crime Rates Are Real, Not Just Reporting Bias Or Improved Medical Care

75

What Happened With Bio Anchors?

76

Political Backflow From Europe

77

Links For February 2026

78

Moltbook: After The First Weekend

79

Best Of Moltbook

80

Slightly Against The "Other People's Money" Argument Against Aid

81

Highlights From The Comments On Scott Adams

82

The Dilbert Afterlife

83

Mantic Monday: The Monkey's Paw Curls

84

SOTA On Bay Area House Party

85

The Permanent Emergency

86

Highlights From The Comments On Boomers

87

You Have Only X Years To Escape Permanent Moon Ownership

88

Highlights From The Comments On Vibecession

89

ACX/Metaculus Prediction Contest 2026

90

Against Against Boomers

91

The Pledge

92

Links For December 2025

93

Vibecession: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

94

The Good News Is That One Side Has Definitively Won The Missing Heritability Debate

95

Why AI Safety Won't Make America Lose The Race With China

96

The New AI Consciousness Paper

97

Suggest Questions For Metaculus/ACX Forecasting Contest

98

What Happened To SF Homelessness?

99

In What Sense Is Life Suffering?

100

The Bloomer's Paradox