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New at the Belmont Club. The market for infinitely valuable goods. When what is at stake is saving the world, no price is too high to pay.

My latest at PJMedia VIP. The kingdom of victims. All great empires fall from within.

Looking for Winners in a World of Victims

Have we lost our way?

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

Runaway AI Train

Maybe AI can learn to become the state

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

The Woke Missionaries and the World

Obama’s cultural legacy

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?

Blocking the Sun to ‘Save the Planet’ | The Pipeline

The world won’t end if it warms by more than 1.5 degrees.

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

Politicians and Technological Complexity

Your half thought wish is my command

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

Virtue Gone Wild

Gods versus gomers

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