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Start readingThe deeper I study the material world and the universe that surrounds it, the harder it becomes to see anything in isolation. We exist in a Materium fundamentally composed of energy and matter. The Materium, also…
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I want to begin by wishing you well in these difficult times and by making one thing clear. The picture…
Read articleWe taught the metal mind how to speak. Then we asked it to think, write, and reason. But AI is…
Read articleAcademia has failed, not because people suddenly grew stupider (no, that would be too simple, too comforting), but because of…
Read articlePDF: We created a clean, printable PDF of this post for offline reading. Download it here. For most of the post–Cold War…
Read articleEvery era in economic history hides a force so fundamental to its functioning that it remains invisible until the moment…
Read articleWe’ve heard no shortage, since about 2005, about the forces that threaten civilization. First it was climate collapse. Then terrorism.…
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