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Being Human in the Age of AI 11
Zooming in after Zooming out
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Planetary Animals
A slow restart
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Startup Thinking
Or how politics and engineering are coming together
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Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Part 1
Introducing the project
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Bhumics, Part 1
On Affectology and Monsterology
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M3: Facebook becomes Meta
I was going to write the first summary of Matthew Ball's writings on the Metaverse, but have to put that on hold as last week's news sinks in: Facebook…
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Introducing the Climate Leviathan
On restraint as a planetary virtue
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Attention: Pay Interest Now
As some of you know, the Democratic National Convention in Chicago was Kamala Harris' last stop on the road to the Emerald City.
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Thompson in India
2019 Newsletter 13
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Humainity: Introducing Political Intelligence
I have been AWOL, but not because I have stopped thinking about being human in the age of AI.
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M4: The Ministry for the Near Future
Introducing the Near Future With the Metaverse fast becoming the next Internet Gold Rush, there's enormous amount of interest at two ends of the…
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Bhumics Week 5: The RBIO Part 2
I have long been intrigued by the varied and often competing understandings of the rule of law.
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Bhumics Week 8: The Pauper, Part 1
Humans, perhaps uniquely among our animal peers, have the capacity for counterfactual reasoning.
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Bhumics Sidebar: From Polycrisis to Polyconflict
I have an extra essay this week - I have been thinking about how “Polycrisis,” the term du jour of the past five years is already obsolete, and should…
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Bhumics 9: The Pauper, Part 2
The path to power is often easier than the journey of maintaining it.
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From Trump to Biden: A Daily Post Until Jan 20th
Episode 1: November 8th
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Vatman: Strange New Worlds
AI for "Translation"
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Bhumics Week 7: The RBIO Part 4
I ended last week’s essay with a contingent critique of the juridical conception of the RBIO - the abdication of the Leviathan from its post.
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Bhumics 18: Coca between Planet and Globe
Preamble
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Bhumics Week 2
On Defeat and Positivity
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Slow Intelligence, Part II
What not to worry about
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Bhumics 13: The Pauper, Part 6
As we continue our journey through Machiavelli's infamous manual of statecraft, we arrive at a particularly revealing section where his pragmatic…
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Vatmania
The Chinese Room in your pocket
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