Society

The Navajo Nation has roughly 400,000 enrolled members and covers more land than West Virginia. Until this April, none of them had ever sign...

Network School is back. We’re up and running in the beautiful country of Kazakhstan, which combines high tech, low cost, brilliant people, ...

how did a linux distro become political? what crazy timeline are we living in?

I read a lot of history books. And I've noticed that many of the things that people will say on a day-to-day basis regarding the past and c...

Bernie Sanders has written a letter to Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Mark Zuckerberg urging them to immediately pause all AI development in ...

Technology's effect on jobs changes over time In the First Industrial Revolution, handweaving had a "Golden Age" for 20 years because early...

Its going to be an era of contradictions. Polls will show everyone hates AI overall but also everyone will secretly use AI all the time. AI...

I wonder if it will one day seem remarkable to historians that the population collapse wasn't due to AGI, but actually began a couple decade...

Western civilization has collapsed before. But a few scholars preserved the ideas that once made Rome great. They made a backup, and it did...

The Dead Internet is a group of people who outsource their thinking to AI.

Here's my conversation with Anthony Kaldellis about the deep history of the Roman Empire in the west and the east (the Byzantine Empire). Th...

One country lied about a harvest and life expectancy dropped for the entire planet. In 1958 China's government took a share of every villag...

You can’t have a body without skin, a house without walls, or a country without a border.

SITUATION EXPLAINED: Theo's Levels of AGI Pilled, six levels for what people actually mean when they say AGI. • Level 0: LLMs are stochasti...

Here's my conversation with Gary Gallagher, a leading historian of the American Civil War. We discuss the causes of the war, the economics a...

I don't have to tell you what happened to these three boys. You already know. How awful is that?

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again." Thomas Paine wrote that in 1776, at the start of an age of constitutions and right...

BREAKING: OpenAI Foundation launches AI for Civil Society and Philanthropy alongside first commitment worth $100M to Common Health Coalition...

The people who start the wars don’t fight them, the people who spend the taxes don’t pay them, and the people who forgive the criminals don’...

You want a civil war? Because this is how you get a civil war.