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A Substack Sabbatical

Notes From the Periphery on the Recent Election in the Empire

Living on the Periphery of the Empire

Hopeful Monsters

Karl Popper’s Theory of Evolution

Atlas of Links #1

Histories of the Greater West

Meta-Meta-Meta-Contrarian Woke

The Great Showdown!! History vs. Science Fiction

Sacred Hydro

Never Index Your Own Blog

Joining Elicit

Poetic Prose on Evil, Written on the Occasion of Having Purchased a Venus Flytrap

Beauty as the Original Solution to the Alignment Problem

Progress and Degrowth in the Rock Opera ‘Starmania’

The Enduring Prestige of Belle Époque Institutions

The First Culture Warriors

Four Ages of the Olympic Ideal

Love More Than You Can Keep Track Of

Mythical Wealth-Creation Machines

Libertarianism With the Cultural Exception

Sun Worship So Intense It Disrupts the Entire Country

How to Win an ACX Book Review Contest

The Elusive Three-Paragraph Essay

Doom Is Too Simple

Against Against Food Waste

I Prefer When Life Is Excruciatingly Meaningful

Sketches for a Philosophy Machine

Is Storytelling Getting Better Over Time?

The Watchmaker Analogy Argues, at Most, for Polytheism

AI Alignment With Almost No Jargon

An Uncommonly Cited Reason to Colonize the Stars

Occasionally Scheduled Reminder That You Live on One of Several Celestial Bodies Dancing Together

Travel Notes From the Most Beautiful Hospital in the World

Index

The Unbearable Simplicity of Dystopia

How Expensive Is Architectural Ornamentation?

More Men Made of Miscellaneous Materials

Trapped Among the Root Causes

The 29th, and Other Calendar Quirks

The Forgotten Capital

Crushing It

The Most Nuanced Take You Will Ever Read About Sparta (and North Korea)

Crashing Into Something or Someone, Perhaps Repeatedly and Only for Fun

Me and My AI Ugh Field

There Is No Planet B (For Worldbuilding)

Reclaiming Cornucopianism

The Snob and the Pollyanna