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Partial archive of back issues of the weekly newsletter. After a couple of platform changes I’m slowly adding older issues.

The pivot ⊗ We should all be Luddites ⊗ What is civil society, and why should we care?

The pivot ⊗ We should all be Luddites ⊗ What is civil society, and why should we care?

Beyond the machine ⊗ History as science

Beyond the machine ⊗ History as science

AI is fuelling a poverty of imagination ⊗ Why nothing about AI is inevitable

AI is fuelling a poverty of imagination ⊗ Why nothing about AI is inevitable

Updating mental models of risk ⊗ An AI tool for learning critical thinking ⊗ What machines don’t know

Updating mental models of risk ⊗ An AI tool for learning critical thinking ⊗ What machines don’t know

The great erosion ⊗ Future of thinking about the future ⊗ On Sora

The great erosion ⊗ Future of thinking about the future ⊗ On Sora

The cloister & the starship ⊗ An environmental triumph ⊗ End GDP mania

The cloister & the starship ⊗ An environmental triumph ⊗ End GDP mania

Don’t think of AI chatbots as people ⊗ Shared reality will self-destruct ⊗ What if the Post Office had its own AI model?

Don’t think of AI chatbots as people ⊗ Shared reality will self-destruct ⊗ What if the Post Office had its own AI model?

The lost art of thinking historically ⊗ How climate broke reality ⊗ Does the Bitter Lesson have limits?

The lost art of thinking historically ⊗ How climate broke reality ⊗ Does the Bitter Lesson have limits?

AI gets stuck in infinite loops ⊗ A real genius club ⊗ The metabolic logic of AI slop

AI gets stuck in infinite loops ⊗ A real genius club ⊗ The metabolic logic of AI slop

Human literacy ⊗ Polytunity ⊗ Africa and the world map

Human literacy ⊗ Polytunity ⊗ Africa and the world map

Is the AI bubble about to burst? ⊗ A life with less pleasure reading ⊗ Bringing human nature back in

Is the AI bubble about to burst? ⊗ A life with less pleasure reading ⊗ Bringing human nature back in

GPT-5 and the end of naive AI futurism ⊗ All the world’s polygons ⊗ The future will be boring

GPT-5 and the end of naive AI futurism ⊗ All the world’s polygons ⊗ The future will be boring