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

The Conspiracy Universe

Your truth. My truth. But where’s the truth?

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

The Last Election

Everyone’s got his own truth

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

Our Career as Gods

I think, therefore it is

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

Icebergs in the Dark

The white haired captain headed nowhere

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

The New Information World Order

TV is dead. Long live the infoverse

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

The Art of Changing Race

Becoming white — or something

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

The World of Wagner: Official Crime

The secret gates

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

Our Titanic

When the moment comes will we remember to take a selfie?

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

Taking a Second Look at the Second Decade of the 21st Century

When Trump and Biden came along, the geopolitical blaze was already going, downplayed by a media eager to show that Barack Obama was governing splendidly.

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.

Terraforming the Earth to Save the Planet | The Pipeline

We’re way beyond planting a tree in your backyard.

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

The Missing Source of the Virus Was a Man

The former conspiracy theory now known as Wuhan

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

Surprised by Peril

Details are lacking, but the widely reported decision of an AI to kill an operator standing in the way of its simulated US Air Force mission is a classic example of “perverse instantiation”. The original story went:

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

The Counter-Counter-Cultural Revolution

The tower trembles

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.

The Return of Good and Evil, Part 2 | The Pipeline

Few can navigate the religious or moral challenge of successfully discerning between good and evil.

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.

The Return of Good and Evil, Part 1 | The Pipeline

Is an electric chair just as good as an electric toaster?

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

A Dead Cert

Reality comes from behind

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

Forming an Anti-Establishment Coalition

Is Washington too big to topple? Anti-establishment coalitions typically form when a significant portion of the population feels dissatisfied with the existing conditions and believes that the mainstr…

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.

Just Another Day: Crisis Becomes Normal

What me, worry?

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

On The Matter of Ghosts

Of course ghosts exist.
Before dismissing the idea as absurd consider that ghosts always come from the past. You can’t have a ghost from the future. But the past speaks to us all the time. We ex…

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!

A.I. — It’s People All the Way Down | The Pipeline

The most misleading words in the WEF framework are the phrases “unsafe or unethical A.I. systems” and “A.I. governance.”