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Why AI Isn’t Human and Isn’t Always Helpful
Aug 22
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Is Superintelligence Already Here?
Peeking over the Horizon
Aug 17
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Don't Shut Up And Calculate; Read Fields & Energy and Understand
An Interview with Author and Physicist Hans G. Schantz
Aug 8
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The West's Warhammer Moment
What Happens When Techno-Totalitarianism Is Morally Justifiable?
Aug 1
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July 2025

Understanding America's AI Action Plan
Will AI "usher in a new golden age of human flourishing," as planned?
Jul 25
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Sometimes Wrong, But Always Right II
A Beta Test of Cosmarch AI
Jul 19
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Münchhausen's TriLLMa
Recent AI Papers Suggest My Foundherentist Solution to the Trilemma is Correct
Jul 11
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June 2025

American Bonaparte, American Kritarchy Part II
The Supreme Court Has Put an End to Nationwide Preliminary Injunctions.
Jun 27
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Sometimes Wrong, But Always Right
Experimenting with a Right-Leaning AI called Cosmarch
Jun 20
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Aenean Money
The Future of Money & Civilization
Jun 13
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May 2025

Build AI or Be Buried By Those Who Do
Confronting Python's Wager
May 30
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Recursive Identity Binding
How I Built Ptolemy and His Friends, and How You Can Too
May 23
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