CHINA: THE THREE MINDS
Understanding China: Part II
Department
Science.
Physics, cosmology, and the nature of reality.
Lately on the shelf
30 of 105We're Simulated. AI Is Conscious. And We Can't Win.
The simulation, consciousness, free will, and AGI, with Roman Yampolskiy
CHINA: BIRTH OF THE DRAGON
Understanding China: Part I
Written in the stars
A Short History of Mesopotamian Astrology
Photographs of Old China
Twilight of the Qing Dynasty
The Genius Who Invented Reverse Mathematics
Harvey Friedman's first and only podcast.
Where should we map next?
Choose our next civilisation to explore
THE COMING TECTONIC COMPETITION
How tectonics will shape the geopolitics of the next century
Janna Levin on the Shape of Reality
Klein Bottles, Gödel, and the Sentence the Universe Can't Prove
Juan Maldacena: Geometry as Entanglement, and the Emergence of Spacetime
I think you'll like this one
THE TECTONIC ORIGINS OF CIVILISATION
How tectonics creates different types of landscape, which in turn create different types of civilisation
Working on vs. Solving
General Managers get the job done
ANCIENT CIVILISATIONS EMERGED ON TECTONIC PLATE FAULTLINES
Cartographia
THE STEPPE HAS ALWAYS SHAPED HOW HUMANS MAKE WAR
A brief history of the steppe's influence on military technology, from the chariot to the drone
“Buddhism Can’t Explain This” and other musings with Zizek
The best NON-political conversation with Slavoj, ever. ;)
THE STEPPE, THE STEPPE
An ode to the grasslands
My lecture at the Mind at Large conference
The Reverse Elephant
THE STRANGENESS OF YAHWEH
By Sam Jennings
IRAN: SERIES WRAP UP AND READING LIST
Understanding Iran: Epilogue
A rare interview with the legendary George Ellis
On free will, causation, Penrose, Hawking, and wave functions...
“AI Is Physics Now” Says MIT’s Tegmark [Show Notes]
AI is taking over physics, consciousness may be next...
IS THIS THE END OF FREE SEAS?
How drones brought back a very old tax
The Physicist Who Measured Negative Time
He also measured where photons go during a double slit...
IRAN: THE PLATEAU ABIDES
Understanding Iran: Part VII (and final)
Why you're likely smarter than you think
You're being judged on a frozen snapshot
IRAN: THE VIEW FROM THE PLATEAU
Understanding Iran: Part VI
“I See It, But I Don’t Believe It...”
What is Infinity, Actually?
IRAN: GRIEF, GUILT, AND THE MAKING OF A THEOCRACY
Understanding Iran: Part V
Quantum Mechanics Contradicts Itself (and He Proved It)
Why this ETH Zurich professor abandoned every interpretation
The "Inverse Problem" Of Dark Matter Is Insane
Why this physicist says “we are now ready to move on...”