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Financially broke elites and moral superiority Mar 5, 2023
The manifold hypothesis and text Feb 17, 2023
Machines of propaganda and violence Feb 8, 2023
Beliefs vs AI Feb 2, 2023
Basic storytelling Jan 30, 2023
Theodicies Jan 18, 2023
Bayes vs machine learning Jan 15, 2023
No non-overlapping magisteria Jan 13, 2023
Thoughts on RL and AI for 2023 Jan 4, 2023
Transpilers Dec 30, 2022
Losing your ethical core Dec 27, 2022
Terry Pratchett vs Philip K. Dick Dec 24, 2022
4 Maccabees and reinforcement learning Dec 23, 2022
Protestants, gnostics and modern marxists Dec 11, 2022
Idealism and AI Dec 4, 2022
The society of the spectacle Nov 26, 2022
Testing utterances Nov 22, 2022
The refutation of all blockchains Nov 17, 2022
RPGs and ethics Nov 9, 2022
The ends do not justify the means Nov 7, 2022
Marx and family Nov 1, 2022
The demarcation problem Oct 31, 2022
Culture and societal transformations Oct 31, 2022
Power laws Oct 29, 2022
Taking appearances seriously in machine learning Oct 23, 2022
Without fanaticism there is no victory Oct 20, 2022
We can't have nice things Oct 14, 2022
The tyranny of numbers Oct 4, 2022
Mysticism and Cybernetics Sep 25, 2022
An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded Sep 24, 2022
Interim ethics and Soul Reaver 2 Sep 19, 2022
Sinking ships and the wheel of history Sep 14, 2022
Scarcity is the scourge of freedom Sep 3, 2022
Experience and imagination Aug 27, 2022
Technology and labour in the Roman world Aug 25, 2022
Blind faith Aug 20, 2022
Alchemy and AI Aug 18, 2022
Democracy and reinforcement learning Aug 14, 2022
Cosmic transformation and mobile phones Aug 12, 2022
Dreams and lies Aug 10, 2022
Happiness Aug 8, 2022
More failed prophecies Aug 6, 2022
Should we still wear sunscreen? Aug 4, 2022
Ghost quitting Aug 4, 2022
A fancy typewriter Jul 30, 2022
Experience Jul 26, 2022
Newton's prophecies Jul 22, 2022
Dilbert Jul 20, 2022
Welcome to the desert of the real Jul 17, 2022
Dawn of time Jul 16, 2022
Planning Jul 13, 2022
Soviet computing history Jul 11, 2022
All is matter in motion Jul 6, 2022
Machine-readable bibles Jul 5, 2022
Warhammer 40K: Chaos Gate Jul 3, 2022
The Romans Jul 3, 2022
Farmers Jun 30, 2022
Grounding large language models Jun 29, 2022
Theodicy and evil gods Jun 26, 2022
Flowers for Algernon Jun 25, 2022
Simpson's paradox and the horrors of unobserved confounders Jun 23, 2022
Cookie cutter data science Jun 23, 2022
Natural language interfaces for the command line and privacy Jun 22, 2022
Mage: the themes Jun 18, 2022
Vale and atom Jun 18, 2022
Large language models - GPT-3 this time Jun 17, 2022
Crypto and paper money Jun 15, 2022
Large language models Jun 14, 2022
Labour theory of value through the lens of reinforcement learning Jun 13, 2022
Goodhart’s Law and AI Jun 10, 2022
She was a phantom of delight Jun 9, 2022
Financial times and workers' power Jun 8, 2022
Coding the matrix Jun 6, 2022
The renegade Kautsky III Jun 5, 2022
The renegade Kautsky II Jun 4, 2022
The renegade Kautsky Jun 3, 2022
Working remotely Jun 1, 2022
The spirit of the interwebs May 30, 2022
The brick bible May 30, 2022
Neats vs scruffies vs money May 28, 2022
Big data May 27, 2022
Openspiel May 25, 2022
Elites and class May 24, 2022
Observational data and politics May 23, 2022
Eclipse Phase and optimism May 22, 2022
Games and will appropriation May 20, 2022
Blade runner's soundtrack May 19, 2022
Automation keeps being predicted May 19, 2022
In praise of idleness May 18, 2022
Gnostic vs Orthodox May 17, 2022
Virtuals vs Reals May 16, 2022
Measures and fairness May 16, 2022
Measures tend to become targets May 15, 2022
Adversus ludii, adversus ludos May 14, 2022
The comedic value of reviews May 13, 2022
For and against liberalism May 13, 2022
Red plenty May 12, 2022
First century sexuality May 12, 2022
D&D/Warhammer 40K May 11, 2022
Surveillance May 11, 2022
Failed prophecies May 10, 2022
Moving to Hugo May 10, 2022