Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

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.

New at the Belmont Club. The history of the ex-future.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. Beating the establishment means building a coalition against it.

New at PJMedia VIP. When the world crumbles around you but people, government and business act like passive zombies. They’re not indifferent; just deadened.

New at the Belmont Club. Our fact-haunted world.