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Strength-Liquidity Tradeoffs in Beliefs
A graphical contraption for mapping beliefs
33 mins ago
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Video Recording: Protocols Preview 2025
Live video chat about Sumner of Protocoos 2025
Mar 13
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Venkatesh Rao
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Protocolized
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The History and Future of Memeing Things Into Reality
Introducing Slotraptions, AI-assisted textual contraptions
Mar 9
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Venkatesh Rao
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Discworld Rules
And LOTR is brain-rot for technologists
Mar 8
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Manichean Realpolitik
When good and evil cancel out in the picture
Mar 1
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February 2025
Modernity Viewed from the Other End
What the hell do we gnow what we gnow, and how?
Feb 23
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Every Story is a Degrowth Story!
Get back in the ship! The whole planet is on degrowth stories! Go, go go!
Feb 17
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Principles for the Permaweird
Chiang's Law, Chor-Pharn's Law, Boyd's Razor
Feb 9
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January 2025
The Steppe Function
Review of January book club read, preview of February read
Jan 31
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The Modernity Machine
The case for a 13th century birth rather than 16th century
Jan 26
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Monsters and Mediocrity
Includes a recipe for making the perfect monster!
Jan 17
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The Gramsci Gap
System emergence in monstrously morbid interregnums between worlds
Jan 11
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