Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Supreme Court Expansion

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This is Joseph Steve Vladeck has thrown down the gauntlet against Supreme court expansion with his four hard questions. They are good quest...

Remember what we were saying about a "flying car-shaped object"?

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In case you missed it : Let's get the obvious out of the way. To the extent that a car is defined as a vehicle for personal transportati...
Tuesday, October 20, 2026

I think it's fair to say that concern over the AI bubble is no longer a fringe position

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Heather Stewart, and Kalyeena Makortoff writing for the Guardian . In its twice-yearly Global Financial Stability Report, the IMF highlighte...
Monday, October 19, 2026

Being able to run for at most fifteen seconds at a time may limit the range a bit.

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Tesla turns to 50-year-old stunt as it tries to Roadster again arstechnica.com/cars/2026/10... [image or embed] — Lora Kolodny ( @lorak.bsky...
Friday, October 16, 2026

I read the Financial Times because of its insightful commentary, in-depth reporting, and because their writers have names like Robin Wigglesworth

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 Robin Wigglesworth is the editor of FT Alphaville (one of the rare bullshit-free zones in the financial press) and his posts are always wor...
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Thursday, October 15, 2026

Canaries

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A couple of recent stories for those following the AI boom.   Frank Landymore writing for Futurism . On Tuesday, Character.AI filed for chap...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Tom Scott invents the anti-clickbait title

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 When you watch this video about a fascinating but somehow almost forgotten bit of post-war era scientific history featuring perhaps the las...
Tuesday, October 13, 2026

A Different Level of Consensus

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Another day another troubling story of AI spending and debt. What's notable about this post from Jared Bernstein and Ryan Cummings is h...
Monday, October 12, 2026

Monday Tweets

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Today's Daily Cartoon, by Paul Noth. [image or embed] — The New Yorker ( @newyorker.com ) October 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM   Having long been ...
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Friday, October 9, 2026

Weighing in on the latest school debate

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This is Joseph. It has been a while since we heard from Dean Dad. In his latest column he writes about Nikole Hannah-Jones and her concern a...
Thursday, October 8, 2026

This type of flowchart could be useful for analyzing a wide variety of news stories

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Big overlap with Betteridge's law of headlines Another helpful diagram from Randall Munroe .   
Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Revenge of the Nerds

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 The seminal parable of the AI doomster cult is the paperclip maximizer, a fairy tale (specifically, the magic mill Aarne–Thompson type 565)...
Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Perhaps unfairly, I decided not to include really knowing Harry Potter plots as relevant expertise

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One of the keys to understanding Silicon Valley's profoundly dysfunctional culture is the bizarre antagonism toward expertise. You can f...
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Monday, October 5, 2026

Sexy Apocalypse

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Nicholas Grossman is definitely onto something...:   There have always been humans who thought: 1) The world will end soon 2) It will happe...
Friday, October 2, 2026

A Useful Taxonomy of AI Doomers, Accelerationists, and Skeptics

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I actually have some quibbles -- I think Newport underestimates how much many doomers are motivated by greed (in addition to craziness) and ...
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