2025-06-02
Agency in Politics
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTMatt Yglesias explains why history is not a steam roller with a steering wheel welded tight, unyielding and incorrigible.Of course, only a very...
SRE's review of Democracy
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTDay OneWe've been handed this old legacy system called "Democracy". It's an emergency. The old maintainers are saying it has been misbehaving lately...
Music in the AI World
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTThe worries that AI will push artists out of business are widespread. If, after all, AI can generate a song in seconds —...
Referendum Mechanics in a Marketplace of Ideas
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTOne can definitely make referendums more complex by mixing in unrelated stuff, unnecessary restrictions, and complexities. But that's not the case with Swiss...
Slave Morality: A place for every man and every man in his place
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTLately, there has been a discussion between Bentham's Bulldog, Scott Alexander and others about the nature of the slave morality. The outcome for...
European Progress Conference
Published on June 2, 2025 6:50 PM GMTEurope has become known as a hub of degrowth.Where are the authors of degrowth papers from?European parliament even hosted a degrowth conference. Ursula...
What AI apps are surprisingly absent given current capabilities?
Published on June 2, 2025 6:46 PM GMT[Epistemic status: a software engineer and AI user, not an AI researcher] I could not find a readily available book database that offers...
US Should Learn, Not Lecture: Israel & Ukraine Show Tactical Brilliance
ODESSA, UKRAINE—Too often, policymakers in the White House and Pentagon, or pundits on cable news shows, approach war fighting in far off lands with a 6,000-mile screwdriver. They try dictate...
Meta Tutorial In Games: How It Works and Why It’s Useful
War Robots has two layers of content: the battle part and the meta part. To help players understand how the game’s various mechanics work, we created a tutorial system. The...
Elon Musk Is Realizing He Made a Huge Mistake
Tesla has been put through the ringer in its CEO Elon Musk's absence. The EV maker saw earnings plummet in the first quarter of this year, with net income cratering...
The Internet Just Changed Forever (And You Probably Missed It)
A new breakthrough called "real-time proving" by Succinct Labs makes Ethereum transactions incredibly fast and cheap, solving a major hurdle for decentralized tech. This means your phone can become a...
Surprise! Dune: Awakening will have private servers at launch after all, where players can disable taxes and enable 'free-for-all' PvP
One of the most-requested Dune: Awakening features is now a reality.
[Beneath Psychology] Chronic pain challenge part 2: the solution
Published on June 2, 2025 5:30 PM GMTIn the last post, I introduced an example where I was talking to someone suffering from chronic pain. Today we will dive into...
Elon Musk Squirms When Asked Tough Questions
Don't Go There Elon Musk's stint as "First Buddy" has drawn to a close. But the subject of his boss and ally, president Donald Trump, appears to still be an...
The worst part of Elden Ring Nightreign, like all multiplayer games, is that you need to rely on the kindness and intelligence of strangers
First there was maidenless, now there's friendless.
IO's James Bond game is called 007 First Light, will be revealed later this week
The name's Light. First Light.
New Study Finds Serious Risk to Eating Edibles
Edible enjoyers, beware. In a new paper published in the journal JAMA Cardiology, researchers from the University of California at San Francisco have found that ingesting cannabis-infused goodies may be...
All Elden Ring Nightreign Remembrances and quests for each character
Tick off each character's Remembrance quests for the full story.
Over $90,000 worth of RTX 5090 GPUs have been replaced in-box by crossbody backpacks at just one Silicon Valley Micro Center
Micro Center says it could be an issue at source in China, which means there could be far more than 32 cases of missing GPUs.
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