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Systems Politics and Regime Change

Thinkwert Twitter Games

Why buildings are built the way they are.

P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary.

A deep dive into text game history, from The Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon, now in book form! Click "Let me read it first" below and the top story to find out how to get your own copy.

Exploring the best in animation from all around the world — part investigation, part treasure hunt.

A world made of gears. Doing both speed premium short term updates and long term world model building. Explorations include AI, policy, rationality, Covid and medicine, strategy games and game design, and more.

Chinese tech longform analysis

Musings about living life online. Essays sent when I have something to say (usually every couple months).

Articles, interviews, and news coverage about AI brought to you by a team of AI researchers and builders.

Moose

All things synthetic.

Miscellaneous thoughts as I figure out life

Jeff Ding's weekly translations of writings from Chinese thinkers on China's AI landscape

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What academia knows* about innovation

Recovering the detail that systems destroy

Scientific and Philosophical Absurdities - Proposed, Considered, Rejected.

A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism.

A monthly newsletter on prediction markets and forecasting platforms: what they're up to, where they are going, and what they should be doing.

Bridging the two cultures of science and the humanities

Stay on top of the latest tech and startup stories.

Foreign policy, American politics, and social science

Conversations on genetics, history, politics, books, culture and evolution

Tales from the history of innovation.

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