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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 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

Chatbots undermining the Enlightenment ⊗ Flounder mode ⊗ Learners will inherit the earth

Chatbots undermining the Enlightenment ⊗ Flounder mode ⊗ Learners will inherit the earth

Think like a commoner ⊗ Governing unthinkable futures ⊗ Why we need new future archetypes

Think like a commoner ⊗ Governing unthinkable futures ⊗ Why we need new future archetypes

Taste is the new intelligence ⊗ Using ChatGPT won’t make you dumb ⊗ AI first puts humans first

Taste is the new intelligence ⊗ Using ChatGPT won’t make you dumb ⊗ AI first puts humans first

Political dimensions of solarpunk ⊗ Conquering the imagination deficit ⊗ Machine readable

Political dimensions of solarpunk ⊗ Conquering the imagination deficit ⊗ Machine readable

How the universe thinks without a brain ⊗ One flew over Latent Space ⊗ The lost art of research as leisure

How the universe thinks without a brain ⊗ One flew over Latent Space ⊗ The lost art of research as leisure