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31 Dec AI 2025 Retrospective: The Static Graph Ceiling Teen Different Tech 31 Dec What I Read This Year The Base Camp Philosophy 31 Dec How I (Accidentally) Started a Newsletter Works on My Machine Tech 31 Dec 17 predictions for AI in 2026 Understanding AI Tech 31 Dec Gatekeepers of Law: Inside the Westlaw and LexisNexis Duopoly BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 31 Dec Eleven (really 15) books we read this year we'll be thinking about for a while Read Max Culture 31 Dec 🌻 what is it like to be a writer? @jasmine’s substack Culture 31 Dec Going Awol: 2025 in Review! Wollenblog Philosophy 31 Dec Tuesday's Trailheads Scattershot Culture 31 Dec 2025: A Reckoning Small Potatoes Psychology 31 Dec A Year of Real Progress for Kids After Babel Culture 31 Dec Read This First (updated 31 December 2025) The Cutting Floor Culture 31 Dec How to Protocol Watch Protocolized Culture 31 Dec How LLMs change software engineering Pertinent Observations Life 31 Dec The real AI risk isn't job loss — it's epistemic James Randall Tech 31 Dec Rupture Without Reformation Wisdom of Crowds Culture 31 Dec At least five interesting things: Buy Local edition (#74) Noahpinion Economics 31 Dec 🔉 Statically Linking PipeWire Games by Mason Tech 30 Dec The 10 Most Popular Articles of the Year The Honest Broker Culture 30 Dec Work-Hardened Archetypes Summer Lightning Culture 30 Dec you go first Freddie deBoer Culture 30 Dec Pray for Beta, Not Alpha Of Dollars And Data Finance 30 Dec Against The Machine Reading Group Over the Field Culture 30 Dec The Weeb Economy Noahpinion Economics 30 Dec Dubai Notes Pertinent Observations Life 30 Dec Monday’s Trailheads Scattershot Culture 29 Dec Updated LLM Benchmark (Gemini 3 Flash) Entropic Thoughts Tech 29 Dec Teaching Silicon to Talk Ever Not Quite Tech 29 Dec Tribalism Corrupts Politics (Even When One Side Is Worse) Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 29 Dec Facing the new year with a stick Maria Konnikova Psychology 29 Dec 2025 Buy-Side Quant Job Advice At Night We Walk in Circles Finance 29 Dec Our Top 10 Most-Read Articles of 2025 Wisdom of Crowds Culture 29 Dec The Long Arc: Recommended Reading The One Percent Rule Tech 29 Dec How it Started vs. How it’s Going Open Questions Philosophy 29 Dec A crisis of beauty, and a response Pilgrims in the Machine Culture 29 Dec writing is an inherently dignified human activity Personal Canon Culture 28 Dec Year in review, 2025 The Common Reader Culture 28 Dec Open Thread: Thoughts on 2026? BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 28 Dec On intuition and anxiety Surfing Complexity Tech 28 Dec 2025: The Music Post Nadig.com Finance 28 Dec A Woman on a NY Subway Just Set the Tone for Next Year The Honest Broker Culture 28 Dec The ways of empires Global Inequality and More Economics 28 Dec How Democracies Can Get Their Mojo Back Wisdom of Crowds Culture 28 Dec My 2025 Q4 Highlights: Favorite Books, Games, and TV Shows Mert Bulan Life 28 Dec Ten things that are going right in America Noahpinion Economics 28 Dec Software engineers should be a little bit cynical Sean Goedecke Tech 27 Dec Memory Research Group: Six Months of Reading Backward Through Time Protocolized Culture 27 Dec The dangers of SSL certificates Surfing Complexity Tech 27 Dec How you, today, can become less of an ideological robot Wollenblog Philosophy 27 Dec The Physicist Who Says We've Already Quantized Gravity Curt Jaimungal Science 27 Dec Decisions Without Reasons The One Percent Rule Tech 27 Dec More on shuffles Shreevatsa Culture 27 Dec You can't design software you don't work on Sean Goedecke Tech 27 Dec More on shuffles Shreevatsa Culture 26 Dec What do we owe each other once we become different sorts of people? The Common Reader Culture 26 Dec In 2026, Will Americans Finally Turn Against Oligarchs? BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 26 Dec The Eight Questions You Must Answer The Honest Broker Culture 26 Dec Awards Season Rivals Sinners and One Battle Another Are Both Very Good, Very Fun, and Very Overrated Freddie deBoer Culture 26 Dec Best of Economic Forces: 2025 Edition Economic Forces Economics 26 Dec Why Everyone Loves Japan Noahpinion Economics 25 Dec The Unresolved Contradiction of Diversity Initiatives Rob Henderson Psychology 24 Dec Faith: a Christmas reflection Nicholas Gruen Culture 24 Dec Do you believe in society’s lies? Numb at the Lodge Culture 24 Dec Four Perspectives on Bing Crosby The Honest Broker Culture 24 Dec 2025 Rob Henderson Psychology 24 Dec Holiday Special: The Case for a New American Founding Wisdom of Crowds Culture 24 Dec Why Do Middle-Aged Men Quote This Failed Comedy to Each Other? Speak and Regret Psychology 24 Dec Microseason Note: 乃東生 The Cutting Floor Culture 24 Dec The Modernity Machine III Contraptions Tech 24 Dec On Timing Strategies At Night We Walk in Circles Finance 24 Dec Burnout and Hope Wisdom of Crowds Culture 24 Dec 2025 Book Club Hangout (Transcript) Contraptions Tech 24 Dec Riley Walz Matt Mullenweg Tech 24 Dec Nobody knows how large software products work Sean Goedecke Tech 24 Dec My Coding Adventures in 2025 Susam Pal Tech 23 Dec No paywall, anywhere The Common Reader Culture 23 Dec The Predation Circuit Protocolized Culture 23 Dec None of your beeswax! Anecdotal Value Culture 23 Dec We are not serious people The Autodidact Culture 23 Dec You Must Change Your Life Ever Not Quite Tech 23 Dec The Read Max year in review 2025 Read Max Culture 23 Dec God Bless Us, Everyone Freddie deBoer Culture 23 Dec The Risk You Aren’t Thinking About Of Dollars And Data Finance 23 Dec The Skynet Fallacy The One Percent Rule Tech 23 Dec Advent of Slop: A Guest Post by Claude Armin Ronacher Tech 23 Dec Nerd Quiz #3 Susam Pal Tech 22 Dec Clippings 1 ~ The first step Investment Ecosystem Clippings Finance 22 Dec 10 More Essential Theoretical Physics Questions Every Graduate Student Must Master Curt Jaimungal Science 22 Dec Moneyballocracy AI Ascendant Tech 22 Dec Carnival Time, Hardness, and the Machines That Process Excess Summer Lightning Culture 22 Dec Burn Your Oracles Minutes Life 22 Dec High performers are late bloomers The Common Reader Culture 22 Dec Fiddlesticks! I Was Wrong About The Fine-Tuning Argument Wollenblog Philosophy 22 Dec The Prisoner’s Dilemma of Voluntary Taxation The Choice Engine Economics 22 Dec Can a Transformer “Learn” Economic Relationships? Ghosts of Electricity Economics 22 Dec Can a Transformer “Learn” Economic Relationships? Arpitrage Economics 22 Dec The best books, films and TV about AI + tech in 2025 Blood in the Machine Tech 22 Dec A defence of morality as respect for a social contract Optimally Irrational Economics 22 Dec The Return of the Weirdo The Honest Broker Culture 22 Dec Import AI 438: Silent sirens, flashing for us all Import AI Tech 22 Dec Editing is Only Good If the Editing is Good and a Lot of Editing is Not Good Freddie deBoer Culture 22 Dec Present at the Destruction Wisdom of Crowds Culture 22 Dec The Amazing Generation is the Book Parents Have Been Asking For After Babel Culture 22 Dec Interview with Business Standard: Economy, Markets, Yields, INR Tessellatum Economics 22 Dec Logchef v1.0: The Journey to a Real Log Viewer Karan Sharma Tech 22 Dec A Year Of Vibes Armin Ronacher Tech 21 Dec Monopoly Round-Up: Corporate Lawyers and Fat Envelope America BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 21 Dec Go in 9×9 is Awesome Entropic Thoughts Tech 21 Dec My Best Premium Tweets Rob Henderson Psychology 21 Dec Announcing the "No BS Political Science Newsletter" Never Met a Science Culture 21 Dec The best movies and music I saw/heard this year Read Max Culture 21 Dec AI in 2026 and beyond ⊗ Bioregionalism’s tech-driven revival Sentiers Tech 21 Dec Things I Enjoyed In 2025 and Looking Ahead to 2026 Scenes with Simon Culture 21 Dec Bits and pieces Pertinent Observations Life 20 Dec The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients One Useful Thing Tech 20 Dec Between Altitudes The Cutting Floor Culture 20 Dec Top 10 and More: The Best Books I Read in 2025 Miller's Book Review Culture 20 Dec AI Sessions #6: AI Companions and Consciousness Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 20 Dec Leading Indicators Stockviz Finance 20 Dec Friday’s Trailheads Scattershot Culture 20 Dec Revenge of the Dilettantes Contraptions Tech 20 Dec Sit Down and Be Sorted Kneeling Bus Culture 19 Dec Bondi: four takes Nicholas Gruen Culture 19 Dec Planetary Tech Support Protocolized Culture 19 Dec The Case For Prayer, For People Who Don't Yet Believe Wollenblog Philosophy 19 Dec Live with Katie Couric After Babel Culture 19 Dec Cold Cases in the AI era Anecdotal Value Culture 19 Dec The Surprising Return of the Bookstore The Honest Broker Culture 19 Dec What is "slop," exactly? Read Max Culture 19 Dec The Borification of American Education Luke Burgis Newsletter Culture 19 Dec How Kids Actually Get Good at Math in America The Intrinsic Perspective Tech 19 Dec To everyone who has supported TOE Curt Jaimungal Science 19 Dec Thursday's Trailheads Scattershot Culture 19 Dec Will money still exist in the agentic economy? Ghosts of Electricity Economics 19 Dec Will money still exist in the agentic economy? Strange Loop Canon Tech 19 Dec Dice in the Air Hyperdimensional Tech 19 Dec US-China recoupling in an age of decoupling High Capacity Economics 19 Dec Selfish gifts Koenfucius Psychology 19 Dec The books I enjoyed most this year, 2025. The Common Reader Culture 19 Dec Wolfram Automattica Matt Mullenweg Tech 19 Dec 11 predictions for 2026 Platformer Tech 19 Dec Prepare for That Stupid World Ploum Tech 19 Dec Introducing RSC Explorer Overreacted Tech 18 Dec How Wall Street Ruined the Roomba and Then Blamed Lina Khan BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 18 Dec The invisible hand screws up your regression Economic Forces Economics 18 Dec Manufactured Present Summer Lightning Culture 18 Dec Is it irresponsible for academics to refuse to use AI? Small Potatoes Psychology 18 Dec Open models: Hot or Not with Nathan Lambert & Florian Brand Interconnects Tech 18 Dec Announcing the #CORE1 Contest Curt Jaimungal Science 18 Dec The Argument That Lebron is the GOAT Is Running Out of Time Freddie deBoer Culture 18 Dec 2025 Interconnects year in review Interconnects Tech 18 Dec Romantic Rejection Is the Least of Your Problems Rob Henderson Psychology 18 Dec 2025 Year in Review: Presence versus Performance Ness Labs Life 18 Dec How Tech Companies Rig Parental Guilt After Babel Culture 18 Dec Talking Trump's Reiner comments, Brown shooting misinformation, and white men in media with John Ganz and Jay Kang Read Max Culture 18 Dec The Case For Prayer, Even If You're an Atheist Plain English Culture 18 Dec Kiran Desai: catching a glimpse in the forest The Common Reader Culture 18 Dec The Thinking Game Matt Mullenweg Tech 18 Dec There has to be a way Blood in the Machine Tech 17 Dec Military Standard on Software Control Levels Entropic Thoughts Tech 17 Dec This is a Time of Technical Deflation Dan Shapiro Tech 17 Dec Waymo and Tesla’s self-driving systems are more similar than people think Understanding AI Tech 17 Dec A Reading List for the End of Civilization The Honest Broker Culture 17 Dec Musk, Trump, Fuentes Small Potatoes Psychology 17 Dec Always do what you know Pertinent Observations Life 17 Dec "Classy" is the one adjective that has never been used to describe Donald Trump Programmable Mutter Tech 17 Dec Cat, Soutine, Feeling, Happiness, Conservative, Enigma The Common Reader Culture 17 Dec Looking Back, Looking Forward, and an 'Against the Machine' Book Group Over the Field Culture 17 Dec Beware Unearned Wisdom Matt Mullenweg Tech 17 Dec Spotify is part of the trade war now Platformer Tech 17 Dec What Actually Is Claude Code’s Plan Mode? Armin Ronacher Tech 16 Dec The Misfit Tree Collaborative Fund Finance 16 Dec The man who mistook his imagination for the truth Maria Konnikova Psychology 16 Dec What Do LLMs Want? The One Percent Rule Tech 16 Dec From Teleology to Procedure The Base Camp Philosophy 16 Dec The skill I'd teach students for the AI era Clear-Eyed AI Tech 16 Dec The skill I'd teach students for the AI era Clear-Eyed AI Tech 16 Dec I made the XKCD impossible app without any words Dan Shapiro Tech 16 Dec Life doesn't start until you have kids The Autodidact Culture 16 Dec Instacart's price discrimination isn't price discrimination Economic Forces Economics 16 Dec Monogamous Humans, Erectile Dysfunction, Growth Minds Rob Henderson Psychology 16 Dec Strong Public Support To Restrict Social Media for Children in Germany After Babel Culture 16 Dec No, the Poverty Line Isn’t $140,000 a Year Of Dollars And Data Finance 16 Dec Competition, pressure and competence Pertinent Observations Life 16 Dec Meta's scam problem may trigger a legal reckoning Platformer Tech 16 Dec Cloudflare CMS Stats Matt Mullenweg Tech 15 Dec Packaging Perl and Shell for NixOS Deployment Entropic Thoughts Tech 15 Dec GDP still wins Economic Forces Economics 15 Dec Bucket Art Contraptions Tech 15 Dec A haunting Chinese noir thriller, an ambling heist movie with the year's best ending, and more Read Max Culture 15 Dec "Wake up, the new Knives Out is over" Wollenblog Philosophy 15 Dec The best Chinese open-weight models — and the strongest US rivals Understanding AI Tech 15 Dec John Carey: the Common Reader’s Professor The Common Reader Culture 15 Dec A Big Misunderstanding Everything is Bullshit Psychology 15 Dec For Me, Postpartum Testosterone Decline Has Been Very Real Freddie deBoer Culture 15 Dec Culture and Cool Wisdom of Crowds Culture 15 Dec Mining Digital Exhausts using bad data analysis Pertinent Observations Life 15 Dec Nex Playground Matt Mullenweg Tech 15 Dec Monopoly Round-Up: Trump Is About to Take Control of How Money in America Works BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 15 Dec Manufactured Inevitability and the Need for Courage The Convivial Society Culture 15 Dec Video The Grumpy Economist Economics 15 Dec How We Lost Communication to Entertainment Ploum Tech 14 Dec 2025 Open Models Year in Review Interconnects Tech 14 Dec Why are Charismatic Demagogues So Attractive? Wisdom of Crowds Culture 14 Dec Call-in Show #30: NAUTICAL default.blog Culture 14 Dec No Stable Sense of Self Rob Henderson Psychology 14 Dec Cymbeline book club The Common Reader Culture 14 Dec America's epistemological crisis (reprise) Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 14 Dec The Trade Deficit Is a Profit Margin The Choice Engine Economics 14 Dec What is Color? Mosaics Newsletter Philosophy 14 Dec Building Character The One Percent Rule Tech 14 Dec Gramsci’s nightmare ⊗ A small slice of human knowledge Sentiers Tech 14 Dec The Critique of the Algocene Through Beeple's Regular Animals and Intimate Systems Scenes with Simon Culture 14 Dec #327 Signal vs Noise Anticipating the Unintended Economics 14 Dec Repeated verses in the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata Shreevatsa Culture 14 Dec Mark V. Shaney Junior 0.2.0 Susam Pal Tech 14 Dec Repeated verses in the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata Shreevatsa Culture 13 Dec Addendum: The Autopsy of the Ideal Family The Choice Engine Economics 13 Dec Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 13 Dec Why Is Axe Murder Funny? Why Is It Captivating? Miller's Book Review Culture 13 Dec The Reordering of Human Value The One Percent Rule Tech 13 Dec Volatility as Beta Stockviz Finance 13 Dec Vektrix James Randall Tech 13 Dec Skills vs Dynamic MCP Loadouts Armin Ronacher Tech 13 Dec Fed 24 Years of My Blog Posts to a Markov Model Susam Pal Tech 12 Dec Peter Thiel and me Nicholas Gruen Culture 12 Dec Why I'm Getting Weird Rushkoff Tech 12 Dec Context Widows Artificial Bureaucracy History 12 Dec Talking A.I. bubbles and Trump's racist rant with John Ganz Read Max Culture 12 Dec Where Do You Stand? Hyperdimensional Tech 12 Dec Subscriber Writing, December 2025 Freddie deBoer Culture 12 Dec Seize the day… or save the best for last? Koenfucius Psychology 12 Dec "I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry Blood in the Machine Tech 12 Dec Bas van Fraassen: Why Science Doesn't Reveal Reality Curt Jaimungal Science 12 Dec Mark V. Shaney Junior 0.1.0 Susam Pal Tech 11 Dec Configurancy Contraptions Tech 11 Dec Teaching Quality Anecdotal Value Culture 11 Dec Human Nature, Nick Fuentes, Education Exchange Rob Henderson Psychology 11 Dec What Kind of Housing Is Being Built in New York? The Slack Wire Economics 11 Dec And We're Back! Call-In Show Tonight at 8:30 PM Eastern. default.blog Culture 11 Dec Everyone is Gambling and No One is Happy Kyla's Newsletter Economics 11 Dec Reflections on my first year writing full time Henrik Karlsson Life 11 Dec Even In a Populist Moment, Democrats Are Split on the Problem of Corporate Power BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 11 Dec The Future is Flesh-and-Blood Wisdom of Crowds Culture 11 Dec Price Theory and the Price Level Economic Forces Economics 11 Dec Vektrix: Building a psychedelic twinstick shooter with WebGPU in 2 days James Randall Tech 10 Dec Deprecate Like You Mean It Entropic Thoughts Tech 10 Dec How to frame an economic blueprint for the 21st century Global Inequality and More Economics 10 Dec 🌻 how to party like an AI researcher @jasmine’s substack Culture 10 Dec New Talk: Building Olmo 3 Think Interconnects Tech 10 Dec Knowledge Chronotopes Summer Lightning Culture 10 Dec The 26 Most Important Ideas For 2026 Plain English Culture 10 Dec When You Just Don’t Feel Like Reading Miller's Book Review Culture 10 Dec The Geography of Forgiveness Speak and Regret Psychology 10 Dec Australia’s New Social Media Regulations Put Childhood First After Babel Culture 10 Dec Modern Work Is Hostile To Thinking The One Percent Rule Tech 10 Dec The Lost Battle for a Certain Idea of America Wisdom of Crowds Culture 09 Dec Roger Penrose: Why Quantum Mechanics Is Wrong, Not Incomplete [Show Notes] Curt Jaimungal Science 09 Dec Distracted Means of Production Over the Field Culture 09 Dec Carl Wilson Should Give Himself More Credit Freddie deBoer Culture 09 Dec The drug that taught me how much I should suffer Experimental History Psychology 09 Dec Morality works without absolute moral truths Optimally Irrational Economics 09 Dec What is "Theory"? Never Met a Science Culture 09 Dec My Favorite Investment Writing of 2025 Of Dollars And Data Finance 09 Dec Found to Constructed Orders The Base Camp Philosophy 09 Dec Reading Between the Lines Luke Burgis Newsletter Culture 09 Dec Let’s Destroy The European Union! Armin Ronacher Tech 08 Dec Advent of Code in Dialog Entropic Thoughts Tech 08 Dec AI can obviously create new knowledge Andy Masley Tech 08 Dec AI can obviously create new knowledge Andy Masley Tech 08 Dec Our overfitted century The Intrinsic Perspective Tech 08 Dec “Shock Jockey Capitalism” Minutes Life 08 Dec Viewpoint diversity and its limits Small Potatoes Psychology 08 Dec Three books of smart, funny, hillbilly noir; a gorgeous documentary about Hollywood's images of cyberspace; and more Read Max Culture 08 Dec Seeing like an agent Strange Loop Canon Tech 08 Dec Why Read Old Books? Miller's Book Review Culture 08 Dec Import AI 437: Co-improving AI; RL dreams; AI labels might be annoying Import AI Tech 08 Dec Both Trump's 2024 Coalition and Its Subsequent Erosion Prove the Same Point: Voters of Color Are Not a Monolith Freddie deBoer Culture 08 Dec Double Tap Strike Wisdom of Crowds Culture 08 Dec Monopoly Round-Up: Netflix Prices Have Gone Up 125% Since 2014 BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 08 Dec What about “Nothing about us without us?” Anil Dash Tech 07 Dec What if bigger models, like bigger stars, fail faster? Contraptions Tech 07 Dec Causal Why vs Teleological Why Contraptions Tech 07 Dec Starmirror, Charli XCX, and What We Are Really Creating Scenes with Simon Culture 07 Dec A code red for AI Blood in the Machine Tech 07 Dec Taking jaggedness seriously ⊗ All futurists are archivists Sentiers Tech 07 Dec #326 The Missing Trick Anticipating the Unintended Economics 06 Dec Baháʼí Philosophy of Religion w/ Joshua Hall Wollenblog Philosophy 06 Dec Open Thread: Best Books of the 21st Century? Miller's Book Review Culture 06 Dec The Vanishing of Louis Le Prince The One Percent Rule Tech 06 Dec America has identified its greatest enemy: Western Europe Programmable Mutter Tech 06 Dec AI Everywhere Stockviz Finance 06 Dec Dr. Shankar's next-consonant chitrakavya Shreevatsa Culture 06 Dec Fizz Buzz in CSS Susam Pal Tech 06 Dec Dr. Shankar's next-consonant chitrakavya Shreevatsa Culture 05 Dec When the facts change what do I do? Nicholas Gruen Culture 05 Dec Devices For The Crafty Summer Lightning Culture 05 Dec On erotica, mental health, and OpenAI's burden of proof Clear-Eyed AI Tech 05 Dec On erotica, mental health, and OpenAI's burden of proof Clear-Eyed AI Tech 05 Dec The Yakverse Chronicles Contraptions Tech 05 Dec Sri Lanka’s Interest Rate Trap The Slack Wire Economics 05 Dec Will A.I. writing ever be good? Read Max Culture 05 Dec Neil deGrasse Tyson Doesn’t Understand What “Belief” Means Curt Jaimungal Science 05 Dec AI agents and the 90% problem High Capacity Economics 05 Dec Netflix Is Trying to Buy Warner Bros Discovery. That Would Be a Disaster for America. BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 05 Dec How our prosperity is based on ignorance Koenfucius Psychology 05 Dec AI detection tools cannot prove that text is AI-generated Sean Goedecke Tech 05 Dec CSS Fizz Buzz with Ordered List Susam Pal Tech 05 Dec They have to be able to talk about us without us Anil Dash Tech 04 Dec You Can Instrument Capabilities, Not Competence Minutes Life 04 Dec The Ethics of Meaning-Making Contraptions Tech 04 Dec Google and Anthropic approach LLMs differently Understanding AI Tech 04 Dec The pre-existence theodicy, debunked. Wollenblog Philosophy 04 Dec AI Sessions #5: How AI Broke Education Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 04 Dec Call-in Show #29: The Great Trip default.blog Culture 04 Dec Sample-Tuned Rank-Augmented Weights Teen Different Tech 04 Dec Couples Therapy with God Inner Wilds Life 04 Dec Form and State Anecdotal Value Culture 04 Dec Gillian Hadfield on AI's Governance The One Percent Rule Tech 04 Dec On getting robbed David Oks Economics 04 Dec Fixing a CIBIL Score Disaster with AI Karan Sharma Tech 04 Dec Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? Ploum Tech 03 Dec everything i read in october & november 2025 Personal Canon Culture 03 Dec Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership Entropic Thoughts Tech 03 Dec Journalists win a key battle over AI in the newsroom Blood in the Machine Tech 03 Dec Trillion Dollar Market Caps: Fairy Tale Pricing or Business Marvels? Musings on Markets Finance 03 Dec Meta’s Child Sex-Trafficking Problem After Babel Culture 03 Dec mistakes of measurement in new media and investing Minutes Life 03 Dec J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Against the World Miller's Book Review Culture 03 Dec Teaching an LLM to Write Assembly: GBNF-Constrained Generation for a Custom 8-Bit CPU James Randall Tech 03 Dec How NBA Legend Michael Jordan Is Blowing Up NASCAR's Monopoly BIG by Matt Stoller Economics 03 Dec Hank Green And The Fantastical Tales of God AIs From Jason Tech 03 Dec CSS Fizz Buzz Susam Pal Tech 03 Dec Emacs Info Expressions Susam Pal Tech 03 Dec Triangle-Free Cayley Graph Susam Pal Tech 02 Dec From Dante Alighieri to David Trent Maria Konnikova Psychology 02 Dec AI, Influence, and the Disassembly of Truth The One Percent Rule Tech 02 Dec The Last People Before the Internet Kneeling Bus Culture 02 Dec Five ways AI can tell you're testing it Clear-Eyed AI Tech 02 Dec Five ways AI can tell you're testing it Clear-Eyed AI Tech 02 Dec 6 Theses on Faith Wollenblog Philosophy 02 Dec Investing and the Media Business Minutes Life 02 Dec Just and loving seeing Henrik Karlsson Life 02 Dec There is No Substitute for Thinking Of Dollars And Data Finance 02 Dec Help some of the poorest people in Rwanda Understanding AI Tech 02 Dec Contra Scott on AI safety and the race with China Strange Loop Canon Tech 02 Dec Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning Anil Dash Tech 01 Dec Metabolizing Monsters Summer Lightning Culture 01 Dec Feynman vs. Computer Entropic Thoughts Tech 01 Dec A bloody Cyber Monday discount Blood in the Machine Tech 01 Dec From under the rubble Global Inequality and More Economics 01 Dec The Bureau of Missing Children The Choice Engine Economics 01 Dec EXTENDED SALE! A political-thriller fantasy adventure in Blitz-era London, a cool Hong Kong y2k action comedy, and more Read Max Culture 01 Dec Your followers might hate you Small Potatoes Psychology 01 Dec The Devil’s Plan to Ruin the Next Generation After Babel Culture 01 Dec 7 Summers in the First Scaling Age Minutes Life 01 Dec Heiliger Dankgesang Hyperdimensional Tech 01 Dec Large Language Models As The Tales That Are Sung Programmable Mutter Tech 01 Dec What Is Christian Literature? God’s Truth, Wherever You Find It Miller's Book Review Culture 01 Dec What is a City Super App and Why Every City Needs One Mert Bulan Life 01 Dec What cricket can learn from American sport Pertinent Observations Life 01 Dec A new system for organizing my writing and projects Nicole Tietz Tech

November 2025

248 essays

30 Nov Of Agents and Agency AI Ascendant Tech 30 Nov Warren Buffett Was Always a Brand Guy Collaborative Fund Finance 30 Nov Multitasking is a form of escapism The Autodidact Culture 30 Nov Sh*t Physicists Say Curt Jaimungal Science 30 Nov Let's Not Bring Back The Gatekeepers Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 30 Nov Humans messing with AI Pertinent Observations Life 30 Nov Writing with probabilistic machines ⊗ What is the right atomic unit for knowledge? Sentiers Tech 30 Nov Interruption Nostalgia Scenes with Simon Culture 30 Nov Not a micro season note. Chemo is done. The Cutting Floor Culture 30 Nov #325 Self-goals Anticipating the Unintended Economics 29 Nov What is Fairyland? default.blog Culture 29 Nov The Joy of Becoming Worthless…except to each other Rushkoff Tech 29 Nov God is not responsible, and these two are responsible for his death Wollenblog Philosophy 29 Nov Chat on: The golden age of Indian entrepreneurship? Tessellatum Economics 29 Nov The Silver Stack and the Mixed Standard The Cutting Floor Culture 29 Nov Yes, Socrates Was a Hypocrite Miller's Book Review Culture 29 Nov Roll's Stockviz Finance 29 Nov 8-bit Console James Randall Tech 29 Nov Be Slightly Monstrous Contraptions Tech 29 Nov Tellurium - on turning 52 The Cutting Floor Culture 29 Nov About me James Randall Tech 29 Nov How good engineers write bad code at big companies Sean Goedecke Tech 28 Nov Can the centre hold? Nicholas Gruen Culture 28 Nov Friday Catch-Up—I'm Hiring Luke Burgis Newsletter Culture 28 Nov Technology Is Already ‘Out of Control’ Ever Not Quite Tech 28 Nov Information Coefficient, Transfer Coefficient And All That At Night We Walk in Circles Finance 28 Nov What's the point of words? Numb at the Lodge Culture 28 Nov There are no moral laws out there Optimally Irrational Economics 28 Nov Read Max Recipe Corner: How to attend a party Read Max Culture 28 Nov The Predator Sees All Over the Field Culture 28 Nov Giving Up Spotify Premium Gave Me Back My Sanity default.blog Culture 28 Nov The Psychology of Budgets Koenfucius Psychology 28 Nov How to quit Spotify Blood in the Machine Tech 27 Nov I Believed in Shrimp Welfare Until I Heard These Unassailable Criticisms Wollenblog Philosophy 27 Nov Giving Thanks for Price Theory, 2025 Edition Economic Forces Economics 27 Nov Giving Thanks At Night We Walk in Circles Finance 27 Nov Microseason Note: 朔風吹拂眾葉 Season of swept leaves The Cutting Floor Culture 26 Nov Renewing GPG Subkeys in 2025 Entropic Thoughts Tech 26 Nov A Note on Stall Speed The Slack Wire Economics 26 Nov 🌻 you're invited: the utopia debates @jasmine’s substack Culture 26 Nov Epicycles All The Way Down Strange Loop Canon Tech 26 Nov Review: *Why Christians Should Be Leftists* by Phil Christman Wollenblog Philosophy 26 Nov Decision Tolerance Minutes Life 26 Nov The Read Max Gift Guide 2025 (and SALE!) Read Max Culture 26 Nov Open Thread: One Author You’re Grateful For? Miller's Book Review Culture 26 Nov The Therapy Elite Won’t Like This Speak and Regret Psychology 26 Nov Is Affirmative Action in Faculty Hiring Justified? Open Questions Philosophy 26 Nov Anti-Yuppies & Abundance Kneeling Bus Culture 26 Nov Becoming unblockable Sean Goedecke Tech 26 Nov Don’t Do Snake Oil Writing Ploum Tech 25 Nov At Groundwork: Lessons from the September Jobs Report The Slack Wire Economics 25 Nov Secrets of the ancient memelords Experimental History Psychology 25 Nov Intelligence and Q Pertinent Observations Life 25 Nov Is it ever ok to use AI in a creative setting? Maria Konnikova Psychology 25 Nov Out of the Wilderness The Convivial Society Culture 25 Nov A We-free December Anecdotal Value Culture 25 Nov How to Sound Like an Expert in Any AI Bubble Debate Plain English Culture 25 Nov Six reasons to think there’s an AI bubble — and six reasons not to Understanding AI Tech 25 Nov Is This How the AI Bubble Pops? Of Dollars And Data Finance 25 Nov Elon Musk Drove ~1/3 of Women Off Twitter Never Met a Science Culture 25 Nov What I'm reading this November Weltinnenpolitik Economics 24 Nov Software Never Fails Entropic Thoughts Tech 24 Nov Not knowing is part of the path Dmitry Kudryavtsev Tech 24 Nov Doomer Optimism Ever Not Quite Tech 24 Nov Billy's Day Out Pertinent Observations Life 24 Nov Wokeness and effective altruism Small Potatoes Psychology 24 Nov Taking Jaggedness Seriously Helen Toner Tech 24 Nov Don’t Give Your Child Any AI Companions After Babel Culture 24 Nov Import AI 436: Another 2GW datacenter; why regulation is scary; how to fight a superintelligence Import AI Tech 24 Nov When You Die, Your Library Burns Down Miller's Book Review Culture 24 Nov Lost in the slop layer Blood in the Machine Tech 24 Nov What I learned from the NYT's reporting on OpenAI's sycophancy crisis Clear-Eyed AI Tech 24 Nov What I learned from the NYT's reporting on OpenAI's sycophancy crisis Clear-Eyed AI Tech 24 Nov Automating updates to a digital vigil Nicole Tietz Tech 23 Nov Things I Wish I'd Known About Meditation Nadig.com Finance 23 Nov Your Features Aren’t What You Think They Are Teen Different Tech 23 Nov Latest open artifacts (#16): Who's building models in the U.S., China's model release playbook, and a resurgence of truly open models Interconnects Tech 23 Nov Trump and monetary policy: Full Oped The Grumpy Economist Economics 23 Nov Aesthetics Over Time Scenes with Simon Culture 23 Nov AI, networks and Mechanical Turks Benedict Evans Tech 23 Nov #324 Bottlenecks Anticipating the Unintended Economics 23 Nov 11 discoveries that changed my worldview ⊗ AI acceleration vs. precaution Sentiers Tech 22 Nov Brazilian Inflation and Disinflation The Grumpy Economist Economics 22 Nov Things I will give you if you fill out this animal welfare form Wollenblog Philosophy 22 Nov Long Goodbye Summer Lightning Culture 22 Nov Tour My New Book, ‘The Idea Machine’ Miller's Book Review Culture 22 Nov Against Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘Against the Machine’ Miller's Book Review Culture 22 Nov PMS Surveillance Stockviz Finance 22 Nov Democracy as theatre Nicholas Gruen Culture 22 Nov Why it takes months to tell if new AI models are good Sean Goedecke Tech 22 Nov LLM APIs are a Synchronization Problem Armin Ronacher Tech 21 Nov Disputations 3: Contemporary Natural Philosophy Needs a New Theory of Forms The Base Camp Philosophy 21 Nov Larry Summers; Olivia Nuzzi; Pluribus Small Potatoes Psychology 21 Nov The era of declining global poverty is over David Oks Economics 21 Nov Artifacts of a Busy Week Hyperdimensional Tech 21 Nov When Heart Meets Mastery Inner Wilds Life 21 Nov (Well) beyond the trade-off Koenfucius Psychology 21 Nov No, religion isn't required for morality Optimally Irrational Economics 21 Nov Agent Design Is Still Hard Armin Ronacher Tech 20 Nov Trump and big tech take two more stabs at ending AI democracy Blood in the Machine Tech 20 Nov Talent Networks of the Future, with Tyler Cowen Luke Burgis Newsletter Culture 20 Nov In defense of the em-dash Maria Konnikova Psychology 20 Nov Why no one likes land taxes Economic Forces Economics 20 Nov Olmo 3: America’s truly open reasoning models Interconnects Tech 20 Nov Talking 'American Canto' and Jeffrey Epstein with John Ganz Read Max Culture 20 Nov Growing up Online Nearly Killed Me After Babel Culture 20 Nov AI Sessions #4: The Social AI Revolution - Friendship, Romance, and the Future of Human Connection Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 20 Nov Tap into smarter notes with Gregorio Zanon, founder of Popt Ness Labs Life 20 Nov How to Love Learning Again Ness Labs Life 20 Nov Trump's AI Policy Is Indefensible Plain English Culture 20 Nov Notes on Economic War and Peace I: Sanctions Relief Weltinnenpolitik Economics 20 Nov Reading, Writing and Drawdown Arithmetic At Night We Walk in Circles Finance 20 Nov The Great Trip default.blog Culture 19 Nov Questions for Cloudflare Entropic Thoughts Tech 19 Nov The Most Terrifying Philosopher I've Encountered [VIDEO] Curt Jaimungal Science 19 Nov An AI “tsunami” is coming for Hollywood — here’s how artists are responding Understanding AI Tech 19 Nov What Orwell’s ‘1984’ Reveals About the Threat of AI Miller's Book Review Culture 19 Nov When I accept myself just as I am, I change Henrik Karlsson Life 18 Nov conversations with friends (on tech, culture, criticism, and bait) Personal Canon Culture 18 Nov Waymo’s next five cities are all in red states Understanding AI Tech 18 Nov The world’s first matcha labubu genocide Numb at the Lodge Culture 18 Nov Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3 One Useful Thing Tech 18 Nov Chat on: India’s growth, AI, geopolitics, ‘Fear’ Tessellatum Economics 18 Nov Call-in Show #28: Lost Time... default.blog Culture 18 Nov Pluribus and Our Age of Hive Minds The Intrinsic Perspective Tech 18 Nov 🌻 expanding the market for culture (ft. celine nguyen) @jasmine’s substack Culture 17 Nov What Killed Perl? Entropic Thoughts Tech 17 Nov Import AI 435: 100k training runs; AI systems absorb human power; intelligence per watt Import AI Tech 17 Nov Viewpoint diversity and its limits Small Potatoes Psychology 17 Nov Doomer Optimism Gathering Keynote Address: A (Visual) Human Creed Pilgrims in the Machine Culture 17 Nov #323 Emotional Integration Anticipating the Unintended Economics 16 Nov Why AI writing is mid Interconnects Tech 16 Nov Empire of AI is wildly misleading about AI water use Andy Masley Tech 16 Nov Empire of AI is wildly misleading about AI water use Andy Masley Tech 16 Nov Price Control Apologia The Grumpy Economist Economics 16 Nov Why Does AI Development Look Like 1980s Software Planning? Summer Lightning Culture 16 Nov On Becoming Less Left-Wing (Part 1) (unpaywalled) Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 16 Nov Investing in the ecosystems that sustain us ⊗ The (Sino-)future is now ⊗ Actually existing solarpunk Sentiers Tech 16 Nov What To Do About Distribution Scenes with Simon Culture 16 Nov Only three kinds of AI products actually work Sean Goedecke Tech 15 Nov “In sooth, I know not why I am so sad” Anecdotal Value Culture 15 Nov Kilkenomics edition Nicholas Gruen Culture 15 Nov Solving Amazon's Infinite Shelf Space Problem Works on My Machine Tech 15 Nov Pricing Power Stockviz Finance 15 Nov Guillermo del Toro's 'Frankenstein' gets the monster right for the age of AI Blood in the Machine Tech 14 Nov Good things for those who wait Maria Konnikova Psychology 14 Nov Allowing Failure Anecdotal Value Culture 14 Nov The Bitter Lessons Hyperdimensional Tech 14 Nov “A problem for later” – the mystery of institutional procrastination Koenfucius Psychology 14 Nov Are Young People Screwed? Plain English Culture 14 Nov Southern Italy is poor because of malaria David Oks Economics 14 Nov Writing for AIs is a good way to reach more humans Sean Goedecke Tech 14 Nov I know you don’t want them to want AI, but… Anil Dash Tech 13 Nov What Price Theory Is And Is Not Economic Forces Economics 13 Nov 30 Days, 9 Cities, 1 Question: Where Did American Prosperity Go? Kyla's Newsletter Economics 13 Nov Around-the-clock intelligence Clear-Eyed AI Tech 13 Nov Around-the-clock intelligence Clear-Eyed AI Tech 13 Nov If you think God exists, you should oppose retributive punishment... Wollenblog Philosophy 13 Nov Sam Altman is the Christopher Columbus of our time Cosmographia History 12 Nov Arrival Radar Entropic Thoughts Tech 12 Nov Waymo is finally ready for freeway service Understanding AI Tech 12 Nov AI ads are going mainstream Understanding AI Tech 12 Nov Fine-tuning is evidence for materialism Wollenblog Philosophy 12 Nov John von Neumann Shot Lightning From His Arse The Intrinsic Perspective Tech 12 Nov A short summary of my argument that using ChatGPT isn't bad for the environment Andy Masley Tech 12 Nov A short summary of my argument that using ChatGPT isn't bad for the environment Andy Masley Tech 12 Nov Interview: Ant Group's open model ambitions Interconnects Tech 12 Nov Why I Can Write Every Week But Can't Resist Carrot Cake Speak and Regret Psychology 12 Nov Talking about Zohran The Slack Wire Economics 12 Nov Giving your AI a Job Interview One Useful Thing Tech 12 Nov You say potato, I say leprosy Experimental History Psychology 11 Nov A Poet On How To Talk To Investors At Night We Walk in Circles Finance 11 Nov Substantial Healing Through Practicing Resurrection Over the Field Culture 11 Nov Ozempic Über Alles Wollenblog Philosophy 11 Nov The Monks in the Casino Plain English Culture 11 Nov The lump of cognition fallacy Andy Masley Tech 11 Nov The lump of cognition fallacy Andy Masley Tech 11 Nov Hire Me in Japan Overreacted Tech 10 Nov Advent of Code on the Z-machine Entropic Thoughts Tech 10 Nov What Are We Even Doing Here? default.blog Culture 10 Nov Context rot: the emerging challenge that could hold back LLM progress Understanding AI Tech 10 Nov Would you still love me if I was a worm? Small Potatoes Psychology 10 Nov Morality without skyhooks Optimally Irrational Economics 10 Nov 🌻 don't take the bait @jasmine’s substack Culture 10 Nov Import AI 434: Pragmatic AI personhood; SPACE COMPUTERS; and global government or human extinction; Import AI Tech 10 Nov Opening the black box of character training Interconnects Tech 10 Nov Sweden Went All in on Screens in Childhood. Now It’s Pulling the Plug. After Babel Culture 10 Nov Memories of an Enron Summer At Night We Walk in Circles Finance 10 Nov Causation Does not Imply Variation The Grumpy Economist Economics 10 Nov How to dis-enshittify the world, with Cory Doctorow Blood in the Machine Tech 09 Nov ‘Save The Cat’ is About Agency Scenes with Simon Culture 09 Nov The pivot ⊗ We should all be Luddites ⊗ What is civil society, and why should we care? Sentiers Tech 09 Nov #322 Between Winning and Losing Anticipating the Unintended Economics 09 Nov On the Good as "Beyond Being" The Base Camp Philosophy 09 Nov To get better at technical writing, lower your expectations Sean Goedecke Tech 08 Nov NBER Asset Pricing Lessons The Grumpy Economist Economics 08 Nov Ground Zero Teen Different Tech 08 Nov A list of other catastrophes that are probably fake Andy Masley Tech 08 Nov A list of other catastrophes that are probably fake Andy Masley Tech 08 Nov How I Graduated From Oxford and Defeated the Spanish Gymcel Community Wollenblog Philosophy 08 Nov Social Web to Royal Machine Summer Lightning Culture 08 Nov Cryptonite November 2025 Stockviz Finance 08 Nov Understanding the Neomercantilist Turn Weltinnenpolitik Economics 08 Nov It's much easier to hold computers accountable than it is to hold humans accountable Andy Masley Tech 08 Nov It's much easier to hold computers accountable than it is to hold humans accountable Andy Masley Tech 07 Nov When it all fell apart Nicholas Gruen Culture 07 Nov Book Review: "The Predictors" At Night We Walk in Circles Finance 07 Nov Frictionfulness Over the Field Culture 07 Nov Don't Overthink "The AI Stack" Hyperdimensional Tech 07 Nov Last Mile Education Anecdotal Value Culture 07 Nov The certainty of ignorance Koenfucius Psychology 07 Nov Data centers and low social trust Andy Masley Tech 07 Nov Data centers and low social trust Andy Masley Tech 06 Nov What’s really going on with AI and jobs? Blood in the Machine Tech 06 Nov Call-in Show #27: GOONS! default.blog Culture 06 Nov A Golden Year (2025): Gold's Price Surge - The Signal in the Noise! Musings on Markets Finance 06 Nov I don’t care who sets the price Economic Forces Economics 06 Nov 5 Thoughts on Kimi K2 Thinking Interconnects Tech 06 Nov What if Columbus had never changed course? Cosmographia History 06 Nov Why Aren’t You Using ChatGPT? (Reprise) Open Questions Philosophy 06 Nov The Democrats Have a New Winning Formula Plain English Culture 05 Nov the occasional art report Personal Canon Culture 05 Nov Gatekeepers, antisemitism, and the greatest World Series ever Small Potatoes Psychology 05 Nov The Internet You Missed: A Last 2025 Snapshot The Intrinsic Perspective Tech 04 Nov How your brain changes when you quit porn The Autodidact Culture 04 Nov A quick plug for my recent podcast appearance Andy Masley Tech 04 Nov A quick plug for my recent podcast appearance Andy Masley Tech 04 Nov The Coffee Bank and the Speed of Change Collaborative Fund Finance 04 Nov A list of books and essays that I love Henrik Karlsson Life 04 Nov AI Could Be the Railroad of the 21st Century. Brace Yourself. Plain English Culture 04 Nov What if it Works Out? The Science of Strategic Success Ness Labs Life 04 Nov An armchair diagnosis of the chatbot moral panic Andy Masley Tech 04 Nov An armchair diagnosis of the chatbot moral panic Andy Masley Tech 03 Nov AWS DynamoDB Outage Analysis Entropic Thoughts Tech 03 Nov The Paradox of Trump's Economic Weapon Revisited Weltinnenpolitik Economics 03 Nov Five recommendations Small Potatoes Psychology 03 Nov Liberalism transforms plurality from weakness to strength Programmable Mutter Tech 03 Nov Ethical Diversity Anecdotal Value Culture 03 Nov Is it worrying that 95% of AI enterprise projects fail? Sean Goedecke Tech 02 Nov UMG Deals and Generative AI in Music Scenes with Simon Culture 02 Nov Numb at Burning Man Numb at the Lodge Culture 02 Nov AI Sessions #3: The Truth About AI and the Environment Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 02 Nov Beyond the machine ⊗ History as science Sentiers Tech 02 Nov #321 Betraying Trust Anticipating the Unintended Economics 01 Nov The 2025 Turner Award Over the Field Culture 01 Nov A civilization without elders The Autodidact Culture 01 Nov Recap Stockviz Finance 01 Nov Introducing touring_test: A Cucumber Extension For Agentic Usability Testing Works on My Machine Tech

October 2025

207 essays

31 Oct Getting a dictator to whip us into line edition Nicholas Gruen Culture 31 Oct Always mask at airports Andy Masley Tech 31 Oct Always mask at airports Andy Masley Tech 31 Oct Understanding the tech oligarchy and its gilded rage with Jacob Silverman Blood in the Machine Tech 31 Oct Haunt You Down Kneeling Bus Culture 31 Oct Tech leaders insist there is no AI bubble Understanding AI Tech 31 Oct Call-in Show #26: Ghost to Ghost (GHOST STORIES!) default.blog Culture 31 Oct My Comic Book Country Nadig.com Finance 31 Oct Cozyweb Animals Summer Lightning Culture 31 Oct A tale of norms and laws Koenfucius Psychology 31 Oct “J’avais toujours raison” Global Inequality and More Economics 31 Oct Central bank independence talk. The Grumpy Economist Economics 30 Oct AI skeptics and AI boosters are both wrong Understanding AI Tech 30 Oct Price Theory and Guilds Economic Forces Economics 30 Oct Columbus: Follow the Setting Sun Cosmographia History 30 Oct How Bible Sales and Chipotle Explain the Economy Kyla's Newsletter Economics 30 Oct Why do AI models use so many em-dashes? Sean Goedecke Tech 29 Oct Sora Dresses Me Funny: GenAI As Fashion Consultant Dan Shapiro Tech 29 Oct Spirit and The Cost of Cognition Luke Burgis Newsletter Culture 29 Oct How artists behind Marvel, Alien, and the Matrix are fighting AI Blood in the Machine Tech 29 Oct Ghost to Ghost default.blog Culture 29 Oct On Mentors Speak and Regret Psychology 29 Oct A lot of arguments for legalizing autonomous vehicles in your city Andy Masley Tech 29 Oct A lot of arguments for legalizing autonomous vehicles in your city Andy Masley Tech 29 Oct Central Bank Independence The Grumpy Economist Economics 28 Oct Who is Ladling the Chum? Anecdotal Value Culture 28 Oct Welcome to the Machine Ever Not Quite Tech 28 Oct The Decline of Deviance Experimental History Psychology 28 Oct Invenit et Fecit Hyperdimensional Tech 28 Oct AI and Folk Cartesianism - Part 2: Problems for Cartesianism Andy Masley Tech 28 Oct AI and Folk Cartesianism - Part 2: Problems for Cartesianism Andy Masley Tech 28 Oct Knausgaard Discovers The Computer Never Met a Science Culture 28 Oct The UK Is Doing the Hard Work of Protecting Children Online After Babel Culture 27 Oct Weather Forecasts Are Punctuated Entropic Thoughts Tech 27 Oct 16 charts that explain the AI boom Understanding AI Tech 27 Oct American Expropriation: The TikTok Ban Weltinnenpolitik Economics 27 Oct 🌻 AI friends too cheap to meter @jasmine’s substack Culture 27 Oct Does the arc of history bend towards democracy? Optimally Irrational Economics 27 Oct Are women unsuited for the pursuit of truth? Small Potatoes Psychology 27 Oct Poisoned prose Strange Loop Canon Tech 27 Oct What is civil society, and why should we care? Programmable Mutter Tech 27 Oct Import AI 433: AI auditors; robot dreams; and software for helping an AI run a lab Import AI Tech 27 Oct Life is a Room with a TV Summer Lightning Culture 27 Oct AI and Folk Cartesianism - Part 1: Defining the Problem Andy Masley Tech 27 Oct AI and Folk Cartesianism - Part 1: Defining the Problem Andy Masley Tech 26 Oct Sunday Edition #21 - Dissecting Substack’s Inverted Revenue Curve Scenes with Simon Culture 26 Oct A tale of regulation The Grumpy Economist Economics 26 Oct The soil falling over my head Numb at the Lodge Culture 26 Oct On Highbrow Misinformation Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 26 Oct AI is fuelling a poverty of imagination ⊗ Why nothing about AI is inevitable Sentiers Tech 26 Oct How the Earth Invented Sleep Plain English Culture 25 Oct A note on tariffs from the real world The Grumpy Economist Economics 25 Oct Want to cut hospital mistakes? Don't pay for them. Nicholas Gruen Culture 25 Oct Welcome At Night We Walk in Circles Finance 25 Oct Burning out Interconnects Tech 25 Oct Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews Sean Goedecke Tech 24 Oct Are you living your best life or your bullshit life? Nicholas Gruen Culture 24 Oct Crying in the Casino Kneeling Bus Culture 24 Oct Call-in Show #25: Haunted Objects default.blog Culture 24 Oct God, godbots, and “friends”: Who we are depends on who is watching us Pilgrims in the Machine Culture 24 Oct The ‘Good Judgment’ fantasy Koenfucius Psychology 23 Oct We can’t talk it through any more: why? Nicholas Gruen Culture 23 Oct Turning a Blind Eye Hyperdimensional Tech 23 Oct Living your best life Maria Konnikova Psychology 23 Oct Contestability matters more than concentration Economic Forces Economics 23 Oct What did Columbus look like? Cosmographia History 23 Oct When is it better to think without words? Henrik Karlsson Life 23 Oct The Fragmentation of America Open Questions Philosophy 23 Oct Is This the New ‘Scariest Chart in the World’? Plain English Culture 23 Oct How to win followers and influence people (to subscribe to your newsletter) Blood in the Machine Tech 23 Oct Trump's monetary policy desires aren't crazy The Grumpy Economist Economics 22 Oct Haiku 4.5 Playing Text Adventures Entropic Thoughts Tech 22 Oct Practice Death; Practice Resurrection Over the Field Culture 22 Oct I figured out how to engineer emergence The Intrinsic Perspective Tech 22 Oct Towards the Post-Naive Internet Never Met a Science Culture 21 Oct Dan Wang's "Breakneck" (review) Anecdotal Value Culture 21 Oct I accidentally ported Steve Yegge’s Beads to Windows Dan Shapiro Tech 21 Oct A pause (for now) on AI and the environment posts, and a bounty for mistakes Andy Masley Tech 21 Oct A pause (for now) on AI and the environment posts, and a bounty for mistakes Andy Masley Tech 21 Oct What Friedrich List Can Teach Us About Export Controls Weltinnenpolitik Economics 21 Oct How to Fix Any Bug Overreacted Tech 21 Oct Should LLMs just treat text content as an image? Sean Goedecke Tech 20 Oct Knowledge, Decisions, and Incentives The Grumpy Economist Economics 20 Oct how to speak to a computer Personal Canon Culture 20 Oct The Greatness of Text Adventures Entropic Thoughts Tech 20 Oct How to scale RL Interconnects Tech 20 Oct If you're so smart Small Potatoes Psychology 20 Oct Import AI 432: AI malware; frankencomputing; and Poolside's big cluster Import AI Tech 20 Oct A strange encounter Global Inequality and More Economics 20 Oct Interview with a new hosting provider founder Nicole Tietz Tech 20 Oct Use the saw, fear the saw Steph Ango Design 19 Oct An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now One Useful Thing Tech 19 Oct Sunday Edition #20 - Play in Storytelling Scenes with Simon Culture 19 Oct Whose Cup Are You Filling? Plain English Culture 19 Oct Should We Blame Institutional Failures For MAGA Insanity? Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 19 Oct Updating mental models of risk ⊗ An AI tool for learning critical thinking ⊗ What machines don’t know Sentiers Tech 19 Oct What have we learned about building agentic AI tools? Sean Goedecke Tech 18 Oct Stella Bowen Nicholas Gruen Culture 18 Oct The Truth Coming Out of Her Well Luke Burgis Newsletter Culture 18 Oct Latest open artifacts (#15): It’s Qwen's world and we get to live in it, on CAISI's report, & GPT-OSS update Interconnects Tech 18 Oct China's emerging export control regime High Capacity Economics 18 Oct Requests for journalists covering AI and the environment Andy Masley Tech 18 Oct Requests for journalists covering AI and the environment Andy Masley Tech 18 Oct We are in the "gentleman scientist" era of AI research Sean Goedecke Tech 17 Oct Government panto: the show goes on Nicholas Gruen Culture 17 Oct Token-Relief Anecdotal Value Culture 17 Oct Russia: An ideology for domestic purposes and another for foreign Global Inequality and More Economics 17 Oct Tough Rocks Hyperdimensional Tech 17 Oct The Deep History of the Shadow Fleet Weltinnenpolitik Economics 17 Oct The flip side of empathy Koenfucius Psychology 17 Oct TS-Trek James Randall Tech 16 Oct Prophetic Soft Technologies Summer Lightning Culture 16 Oct The 4.5 trillion dollar elephant in the room Clear-Eyed AI Tech 16 Oct The 4.5 trillion dollar elephant in the room Clear-Eyed AI Tech 16 Oct China has copied America's grab for semiconductor power Programmable Mutter Tech 16 Oct Columbus: Origins Cosmographia History 16 Oct On Peter Howitt's Other Work Economic Forces Economics 16 Oct The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy Andy Masley Tech 16 Oct The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy Andy Masley Tech 15 Oct Non-Obvious Haskell Idiom: Bind to Lambda Case Entropic Thoughts Tech 15 Oct Albrecht and Beckworth on the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics Economic Forces Economics 15 Oct Why AI Is Not a Bubble* Plain English Culture 15 Oct The Intentional Collapse Rushkoff Tech 15 Oct In Praise of Drinking (A Little) Speak and Regret Psychology 15 Oct A few meta points on my posts on AI and the environment Andy Masley Tech 15 Oct A few meta points on my posts on AI and the environment Andy Masley Tech 14 Oct Slot Machine Development Dan Shapiro Tech 14 Oct Bamboozle me, daddy Experimental History Psychology 14 Oct Two Dimensions of Dedollarization Weltinnenpolitik Economics 14 Oct AI Sessions #2: Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness - A Deep Dive Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 14 Oct Building a studio for your mind: an interview with the founders of Capacities Ness Labs Life 13 Oct Swiss reflections The Grumpy Economist Economics 13 Oct Age of Invention: Joel Mokyr's Nobel Age of Invention History 13 Oct The Faculty are Riding Horses Anecdotal Value Culture 13 Oct The Hackathon Where We Mostly Just Talked Works on My Machine Tech 13 Oct And the 2025 Economics Nobel Goes to... Economic Forces Economics 13 Oct Does anyone want to buy Small Potatoes for $150 Million? Small Potatoes Psychology 13 Oct Import AI 431: Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear Import AI Tech 13 Oct What the left can learn from evangelical churches Programmable Mutter Tech 13 Oct Slop implies capability Andy Masley Tech 13 Oct Slop implies capability Andy Masley Tech 12 Oct Sunday Edition #19 - On The Crisis of Cool Scenes with Simon Culture 12 Oct Introducing Weltinnenpolitik Weltinnenpolitik Economics 12 Oct 🌻 how dems lost the future (ft. kelsey piper) @jasmine’s substack Culture 12 Oct Euro Transfers The Grumpy Economist Economics 12 Oct The great erosion ⊗ Future of thinking about the future ⊗ On Sora Sentiers Tech 12 Oct #320 Pulling a Fast One Anticipating the Unintended Economics 12 Oct How I provide technical clarity to non-technical leaders Sean Goedecke Tech 11 Oct The AI water issue is fake Andy Masley Tech 11 Oct The AI water issue is fake Andy Masley Tech 11 Oct Life Abundant in an Artificial Age Luke Burgis Newsletter Culture 11 Oct Rootedness for Uprooted People Over the Field Culture 11 Oct Superintelligence and the Decline of Human Interdependence Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 11 Oct Infinite Money Glitch Stockviz Finance 10 Oct What are we really doing on social media? Optimally Irrational Economics 10 Oct The Future and Its Friends Hyperdimensional Tech 10 Oct Everything Is Television Plain English Culture 10 Oct How we choose what to see Koenfucius Psychology 10 Oct Data centers & electricity - part 1: as of 2025 they haven't raised national prices Andy Masley Tech 09 Oct Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee on What the Job Market Is Really Telling Us Kyla's Newsletter Economics 09 Oct Books to Stoke the Soul of a Young Child The Intrinsic Perspective Tech 09 Oct [Re-Post] What About Bubbles? Economic Forces Economics 08 Oct Defeated by reality Global Inequality and More Economics 08 Oct Funny or offensive? Maria Konnikova Psychology 08 Oct Sora, OpenAI’s chart-topping AI video app, explained Understanding AI Tech 08 Oct If You Get the Chance Collaborative Fund Finance 08 Oct Trump's University Compact demonstrates weakness, not strength Programmable Mutter Tech 08 Oct Agentic fragments Henrik Karlsson Life 08 Oct AI Is the Market, and the Market Is the Government Kyla's Newsletter Economics 08 Oct #319 Eternal Performance Anticipating the Unintended Economics 07 Oct Health incentives The Grumpy Economist Economics 07 Oct Empty threats Small Potatoes Psychology 07 Oct Rat Information Portal Kneeling Bus Culture 07 Oct Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble AI Ascendant Tech 07 Oct Sandcastles Matter Nadig.com Finance 07 Oct Utilitarianism Is Bullshit Everything is Bullshit Psychology 07 Oct Is Social Media Destroying Democracy—Or Giving It To Us Good And Hard? Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 06 Oct A “Fairly Highly Valued” Market: A Fed Chair Opines on Stocks, but should we listen? Musings on Markets Finance 06 Oct Toronto Talk The Base Camp Philosophy 06 Oct Artificial General Intelligence will likely require a general goal, but which one? Optimally Irrational Economics 06 Oct Can we get an AI to write better? Strange Loop Canon Tech 06 Oct Import AI 430: Emergence in video models; Unitree backdoor; preventative strikes to take down AGI projects Import AI Tech 06 Oct Does Social Media Use at One Time Predict Teen Depression at a Later Time? After Babel Culture 05 Oct Sunday Edition #18 - Social Media Use Really Is Declining Scenes with Simon Culture 05 Oct everything i read in september 2025 Personal Canon Culture 05 Oct TIME TO REFUSE After Babel Culture 05 Oct Between Being and Thinking: Consciousness Reconsidered Mosaics Newsletter Philosophy 05 Oct Self-Driving Cars Are Miracle Drugs. (Plus: Is the Youth Cancer Epidemic a Myth?) Plain English Culture 05 Oct The cloister & the starship ⊗ An environmental triumph ⊗ End GDP mania Sentiers Tech 05 Oct My 2025 Q3 Highlights: Favorite Books and Movies Mert Bulan Life 05 Oct AI and Home-Cooked Software Karan Sharma Tech 04 Oct Actual Intelligence The Slack Wire Economics 04 Oct State of My Homelab 2025 Karan Sharma Tech 03 Oct Of fascination and addiction Global Inequality and More Economics 03 Oct What happened to the middle? Koenfucius Psychology 03 Oct Poetic Will & Choosing the Impossible Inner Wilds Life 02 Oct "Be It Enacted" Hyperdimensional Tech 02 Oct Practical tips for reducing chatbot psychosis Clear-Eyed AI Tech 02 Oct Practical tips for reducing chatbot psychosis Clear-Eyed AI Tech 02 Oct Columbus: Man of History Cosmographia History 02 Oct One Year in the "Ecco" Chamber Never Met a Science Culture 02 Oct This Is How the AI Bubble Will Pop Plain English Culture 02 Oct The two ingredients that can make a thing seem human Pilgrims in the Machine Culture 02 Oct Where It's at:// Overreacted Tech 01 Oct AI isn't replacing radiologists Understanding AI Tech 01 Oct How I read Henrik Karlsson Life 01 Oct This Substack Really Tied My Sabbatical Together Speak and Regret Psychology

September 2025

131 essays

30 Sep Why do we find things funny? Maria Konnikova Psychology 30 Sep Thank you for being annoying Experimental History Psychology 30 Sep Gleanings From the Field: An Agrarian Special Over the Field Culture 30 Sep Why Are Liberals More Depressed? Plain English Culture 30 Sep Brunner lecture The Grumpy Economist Economics 29 Sep Real AI Agents and Real Work One Useful Thing Tech 29 Sep Has sexual desire been reprogrammed by the internet? Small Potatoes Psychology 29 Sep Import AI 429: Eval the world economy; singularity economics; and Swiss sovereign AI Import AI Tech 29 Sep We Are The Slop After Babel Culture 29 Sep How to control increase of income inequality due to new technologies? Global Inequality and More Economics 29 Sep We'll Never Have Flying Cars Mert Bulan Life 28 Sep Fall Break Contraptions Tech 28 Sep Sunday Edition #17 - Too Much Information and the Loss of Dynamism Scenes with Simon Culture 28 Sep Evolutionary Psychology, Politics, and the Humanities Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 28 Sep Anomie Strange Loop Canon Tech 28 Sep TSMP: If Placebos Work So Well, Why Not Prescribe Sugar Pills For Everything? Plain English Culture 28 Sep #318 Reversals Anticipating the Unintended Economics 27 Sep Weekly Weakly Stockviz Finance 26 Sep Power balance and ideology Optimally Irrational Economics 26 Sep What The Left Misses About Trump's Appeal (Reprise) Open Questions Philosophy 26 Sep Revenge of the Bicameral Mind Summer Lightning Culture 26 Sep A change of opinion may not be what it seems Koenfucius Psychology 26 Sep Open Social Overreacted Tech 25 Sep The Band Theory of Societies Contraptions Tech 25 Sep What It's Like to Work at the White House Hyperdimensional Tech 25 Sep Images of Africa IV Cosmographia History 25 Sep How Do You Speak Pidgin To A Probability Distribution? Works on My Machine Tech 25 Sep Note on new technologies in China and on our human future Global Inequality and More Economics 24 Sep Who's Getting Rich Off Your Attention? Kyla's Newsletter Economics 24 Sep Against Treating Chatbots as Conscious The Intrinsic Perspective Tech 24 Sep The Village and the Sewer Programmable Mutter Tech 24 Sep Does Data Matter in Psychology? Speak and Regret Psychology 24 Sep The End of Thinking Plain English Culture 23 Sep Some Thoughts on the Labor Market The Slack Wire Economics 23 Sep The Use of the Useless Ever Not Quite Tech 22 Sep The Next Shaman Will Be Shambhala Inner Wilds Life 22 Sep The Aaron Swartz production function Programmable Mutter Tech 22 Sep The 10 Forever Rules of AI Dan Shapiro Tech 21 Sep Sunday Edition #16 - Social Systems Scaling Scenes with Simon Culture 21 Sep 🌻 are you high-agency or an NPC? @jasmine’s substack Culture 21 Sep #317 A New Target Anticipating the Unintended Economics 21 Sep Altoids by the Fistful Scott Smitelli Tech 20 Sep Money & Wisdom: 4 Stances Inner Wilds Life 20 Sep locf Stockviz Finance 20 Sep Gaslit Courage Contraptions Tech 19 Sep We are all exceptionalists Koenfucius Psychology 18 Sep AI Sessions #1: AI - A Normal Technology or a Superintelligent Alien Species? Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 18 Sep Climate turning point The Grumpy Economist Economics 18 Sep 6 Economic Lessons from Books About Power, Propaganda, and Decline Kyla's Newsletter Economics 18 Sep How I Approach AI Policy Hyperdimensional Tech 18 Sep The 25 Most Interesting Ideas I've Found in 2025 (So Far) Plain English Culture 18 Sep Repost: Absolute power can be a terrible weakness Programmable Mutter Tech 18 Sep The delusion of political violence Optimally Irrational Economics 18 Sep The moments Henrik Karlsson Life 18 Sep 8-bit Golf James Randall Tech 17 Sep Back to School Collaborative Fund Finance 17 Sep Review: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Clear-Eyed AI Tech 17 Sep Review: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies Clear-Eyed AI Tech 17 Sep Three years of apathy, lassitude, and failure Numb at the Lodge Culture 17 Sep Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front Over the Field Culture 17 Sep Am I the Asshole for Taking Work Calls on My Own Balcony? Speak and Regret Psychology 17 Sep Social media is a demonic force in the world David Oks Economics 16 Sep Prediction is hard, especially about the future Strange Loop Canon Tech 16 Sep What's in a name? Maria Konnikova Psychology 16 Sep Climbing La Om Peak in Romania Dmitry Kudryavtsev Tech 16 Sep 5 days in Romania Dmitry Kudryavtsev Tech 16 Sep Blog Extravaganza 2025: the winners Experimental History Psychology 15 Sep All the Sad Young Terminally Online Men Plain English Culture 15 Sep Experiments as Performance Art Never Met a Science Culture 15 Sep Custom for designing, off-the-shelf for shipping Nicole Tietz Tech 14 Sep Sunday Edition #15 - The Heterotopia of Hypographic Media Scenes with Simon Culture 14 Sep The Only Skill That Matters Now Works on My Machine Tech 14 Sep When the Machine Learns Too Well Mosaics Newsletter Philosophy 14 Sep Against Bluesky (and Blueskyism) Conspicuous Cognition Philosophy 14 Sep #316 Being Unreasonable Anticipating the Unintended Economics 13 Sep Liquidity Sinks and Speculative Flows Stockviz Finance 13 Sep The Age of Discord: Fragmented politics and unhinged discourse Global Inequality and More Economics 12 Sep Practice in Still Life 8: The Desert Philosopher The Base Camp Philosophy 12 Sep Foreground Noise Kneeling Bus Culture 12 Sep We Are Not Low Creatures The Intrinsic Perspective Tech 12 Sep Why we can't just supervise AI like we supervise humans Clear-Eyed AI Tech 12 Sep Why we can't just supervise AI like we supervise humans Clear-Eyed AI Tech 12 Sep Understanding AI as a social technology Programmable Mutter Tech 12 Sep The Building Company Hyperdimensional Tech 12 Sep Getting Schooled Open Questions Philosophy 11 Sep The truth about sport Optimally Irrational Economics 11 Sep Beyond Szabo Scaling Contraptions Tech 11 Sep On Working with Wizards One Useful Thing Tech 11 Sep Walking The AI Ecology Summer Lightning Culture 11 Sep Silicon Valley’s Reading List Reveals Its Political Ambitions Programmable Mutter Tech 10 Sep The Machine is Not Inevitable Over the Field Culture 10 Sep The Great Implicit Bias Bamboozle Speak and Regret Psychology 09 Sep La Vittoria, or ‘Suicide of the Machine’ Never Met a Science Culture 09 Sep Why Things Go to Shit Everything is Bullshit Psychology 08 Sep At The International Economy: A Future of Open Borders? 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31 Aug Sunday Edition #13 - Co-Composting Collaboration Scenes with Simon Culture 30 Aug Venturing into Port William... Over the Field Culture 30 Aug The Alt in Alternative Stockviz Finance 30 Aug Africa doesn't have large firms because it doesn't have social trust David Oks Economics 29 Aug Brave Men Run (In My Family) Kneeling Bus Culture 29 Aug Thoughts on AI, Intelligence, and Knowledge Dmitry Kudryavtsev Tech 29 Aug Trump: Neoliberal agenda pursued by direct means Global Inequality and More Economics 29 Aug Were European immigrants to the U.S. always considered white? David Oks Economics 28 Aug Mass Intelligence One Useful Thing Tech 28 Aug I'm Going to Prison Luke Burgis Newsletter Culture 28 Aug The Cause of, and the Solution to, All Your Team's Problems Works on My Machine Tech 28 Aug 🌻 america against china against america @jasmine’s substack Culture 28 Aug AI That Works for Workers: Survey Results Kyla's Newsletter Economics 28 Aug "For All Issues So Triable" Hyperdimensional Tech 27 Aug Read this to find your calling The Autodidact Culture 27 Aug how to expand the market for literature (and literary criticism) Personal Canon Culture 27 Aug Short posts on useful concepts I : Flattery Inflation Programmable Mutter Tech 27 Aug When Good Intentions Alienate: The Unintended Consequences of Anti-Racist Zeal Speak and Regret Psychology 27 Aug How Turtles Can Fly Pilgrims in the Machine Culture 26 Aug Chatbot psychosis: what do the data say? Clear-Eyed AI Tech 26 Aug Chatbot psychosis: what do the data say? Clear-Eyed AI Tech 26 Aug All That We've Lost Over the Field Culture 26 Aug Walter and other stories AI Ascendant Tech 26 Aug Friendship politics Optimally Irrational Economics 26 Aug You Don't Need an AI Policy. You Need Two. Open Questions Philosophy 26 Aug The Antimeme Haunting Western Philosophy Never Met a Science Culture 26 Aug Age of Invention: The Century-Long Depression Age of Invention History 25 Aug The future of work is playing a videogame Strange Loop Canon Tech 25 Aug In Which I Return to ETF.com Nadig.com Finance 25 Aug Import AI 426: Playable world models; circuit design AI; and ivory smuggling analysis Import AI Tech 24 Aug Safe Is What We Call Things Later Works on My Machine Tech 24 Aug Scent of Media Summer Lightning Culture 24 Aug The Self and Consciousness Mosaics Newsletter Philosophy 23 Aug Walter Strange Loop Canon Tech 23 Aug The Differences Between Expats and Immigrants Mert Bulan Life 23 Aug Apple in China Stockviz Finance 21 Aug Practice in Still Life 7: The Craft of Contemplation The Base Camp Philosophy 21 Aug Redesigning The Intrinsic Perspective The Intrinsic Perspective Tech 20 Aug Change and Adversity Dmitry Kudryavtsev Tech 20 Aug The Promise of Lab-Grown Meat Open Questions Philosophy 20 Aug Pickleball Is What Diversity Workshops Wish They Were Speak and Regret Psychology 19 Aug Bullshit Links - August 2025 Everything is Bullshit Psychology 19 Aug Notes on Bihar David Oks Economics 18 Aug When facing a complicated problem, don't try to solve it, try to understand it Henrik Karlsson Life 18 Aug Import AI 425: iPhone video generation; subtle misalignment; making open weight models safe through surgical deletion Import AI Tech 18 Aug Visualizing distributions with pepperoni pizza (and javascript) Nicole Tietz Tech 17 Aug The System Inside the System Works on My Machine Tech 16 Aug Coming soon The Choice Engine Economics 16 Aug Beyond Booleans Overreacted Tech 15 Aug Gramsci and Lenin on transcending “parliamentarianism” and on direct democracy Global Inequality and More Economics 15 Aug Disputations 2: The Desire for Truth is the Desire for Justice The Base Camp Philosophy 15 Aug Why science is politically disruptive Optimally Irrational Economics