3 October 2023 Why Machines Will Never Rule the World A book review about imminent, world-dooming, Skynet-and-Matrix-manifesting artificial intelligence. Science, Technology
17 August 2021 Who Is the People? Pt. 2 A short voyage through Arrow's impossibility theorem, and what it means for self-government. Government, Culture, Technology
8 June 2021 Who Is the People? Pt. 1 We're used to lies in politics, but nonsense is another matter, and perhaps the worst gob of nonsense today is our set of beliefs surrounding the People. Government, Culture, Technology
22 February 2021 Level 5 Society Over 200 years of meteoric technological progress seem to have given way to stagnation. Might energy play a part in the story? Technology, Culture, Government
21 December 2020 Science, Heuretica, and Funding the Public Good If you speak to anyone involved in publicly funded research (except a university provost) you will hear a ready opinion on its dysfunction. Science, Government, Technology