My latest at PJMedia VIP. We’ve gone from a society with different opinions to one with different sets of facts.
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The MAGA vs Conspiracy Election
New at the Belmont Club. The institutions are in short-term survival mode. No one wants to think about the future.
Nice Olympus You’ve Got
New at the Belmont Club. To any sufficiently advanced technology “my truth” is indistinguishable from fact.
And the Band Played On
My latest at PJMedia VIP. The global world voyage, begun in a unipolar moment, is racing headlong into the unknown.
Alien vs Predator
New at the Belmont Club. Twitter vs Threads. The battle for your soul.
Changed Meanings
New at PJMedia VIP. Is race a proxy for likelihood to succeed? I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
Who Guards the Guardians
My latest at PJMedia VIP. When politicians have a day job — and a night job — what’s the public to do?
Our Invincible Civilization
New at the Belmont Club. The greatest sin isn’t lust. It’s pride.
Scandal Free
My latest at PJMedia VIP. The no-problem era when things started to fall apart.
A Clinical Trial of Size One
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.
Ben Hu
New at the Belmont Club. Couldn’t find the bat, but they found the man.
I Can Do That, Dave
New at the Belmont Club. Can hidden danger lurk behind the bright promise of artificial intelligence?
Gremlins From Normal Life
My latest at PJMedia VIP. Are reality and ordinary people slowly gnawing at the Woke tower?
What do you mean ‘we’, human?
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.
Leaving the Garden for the Second Time
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.
Chomsky
New at the Belmont Club. The history of the ex-future.
Allies Are Essential
My latest at PJMedia VIP. Beating the establishment means building a coalition against it.
Numb
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.
Beware the Singleton
New at the Belmont Club. Our fact-haunted world.
And You Thought It Was Infallible
My new article at the Pipeline. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them! AI governance is made out of people. They’re making our rules out of orders from people!