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The Modernity Machine III

2025 Book Club Hangout (Transcript)

Revenge of the Dilettantes

What if bigger models, like bigger stars, fail faster?

Causal Why vs Teleological Why

The Yakverse Chronicles

The Ethics of Meaning-Making

Be Slightly Monstrous

The Band Theory of Societies

Beyond Szabo Scaling

Hysteresis and the Mark-Makers

Dark Age Stylesheet

A Tale of Four Supermans

Towards the Cosmopolitan Supergrid

Welcome to the Cosmopolis

Summer 2025 U.S. Vibe Brief

Occam’s Shaving Cream

The Beekeeper's Dilemma

Tripwire Minds, Clockwork Days

Be History or Do History?

The Modernity Machine II

The Dilemma of the Pacifist Lion

Prompting is Managing

Not Just a Camera, Not Just an Engine

The Right Side of History

Traveling, Thinking, and Thinking About Traveling

Three Pieces, May 2025

In Search of Liveness

Three Great Pieces

A Random Walk Down Meme Street

Bangkok Diary, 2025

The Ecstasy of Deep Influence

Autoamputation Flow

The Poverty of Abundance

Terms of Centaur Service

To Know is to Stage

The Starfish and the Goose

LLMs as Index Funds

What Makes a Good Teacher?

Knowledge Under Siege

Low Roads to High Places

Strength-Liquidity Tradeoffs in Beliefs

Video Recording: Protocols Preview 2025

The History and Future of Memeing Things Into Reality

Discworld Rules

Manichean Realpolitik

Modernity Viewed from the Other End

Every Story is a Degrowth Story!

Principles for the Permaweird

The Steppe Function

The Modernity Machine

Monsters and Mediocrity

The Gramsci Gap

Contraptionist History Book Club

Contraptions Book Club

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