Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

New at the Belmont Club. We must surrender our freedom so we don’t lose it.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. Converting the world to Woke. Has a pointless new colonialism started a new anti-colonialism?

My latest at The Pipeline. Solar radiation management, AKA ‘blocking the sunlight’, is no longer the stuff of conspiracy. Once you start, can you stop?

New at the Belmont Club. Politicians as lords of innovation. They think they are in control.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. What the billionaire survivalist islands really stand for: the Dark Tower against the village.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. We’ve gone from a society with different opinions to one with different sets of facts.

New at the Belmont Club. The institutions are in short-term survival mode. No one wants to think about the future.

New at the Belmont Club. To any sufficiently advanced technology “my truth” is indistinguishable from fact.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. The global world voyage, begun in a unipolar moment, is racing headlong into the unknown.

New at the Belmont Club. Twitter vs Threads. The battle for your soul.

New at PJMedia VIP. Is race a proxy for likelihood to succeed? I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. When politicians have a day job — and a night job — what’s the public to do?

New at the Belmont Club. The greatest sin isn’t lust. It’s pride.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. The no-problem era when things started to fall apart.

My latest at the Pipeline. Remolding the earth to a UN plan is an engineering project bigger than anything humanity has attempted before and so complex that perhaps only artificial intelligence can help governments do it.

New at the Belmont Club. Couldn’t find the bat, but they found the man.

New at the Belmont Club. Can hidden danger lurk behind the bright promise of artificial intelligence?

My latest at PJMedia VIP. Are reality and ordinary people slowly gnawing at the Woke tower?

Part 2 of my essay “The Return of Good and Evil” at the Pipeline. Suppose AI should regard humanity evil or worthless and worthy of extermination like HG Wells’ Martians? To what principle, deity or moral precept would us inferiors appeal for mercy? There being no principles.

My latest at The Pipeline. Is intelligence only concerned with ‘how’ to do things? Or does it also consider ‘why’? We are about to discover what AI’s answer to this question is.