Outputism––the belief in the functional equivalence of processes if their proximate outputs appear equivalent––results in blindness to the value that flows from the tendency of different processes to produce different transformations in us. The capacity to direct a machine to

Going off the grid for two days. Probably be a slow news weekend.

My response when people ask me about the slowdown in EV sales

I think I've figured out a the deep dark secret behind the Cybertruck which I haven't seen from anyone else: Elon did not green light the Cybertruck because he thought it would sell. It was a different reason entirely, something that would sound crazy if he said it out loud.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, former President & current leader of the Justicialist Party, is the latest victim of political victimisation via lawfare. This trend, of imprisoning one's political opponents through utterly prejudicial pseudo-juridical means, must end! Everywhere

People complaining about AI hallucinations reminds me of people who complained about inaccurate Wikipedia entries.

Michael Levin‘s core contribution may be the hypothesis that consciousness is the way in which both minds and organisms self organize

1/ Economist Paul Ormerod's simulations challenge everything we think we know about competition.

Many AI researchers seem to be possessed by the wholly irrational belief (in that there is no way to falsify the claim) that human beings are “small,” “irrelevant,” and, “not special.” I would rather they were possessed by the opposite irrational belief.

LLMs have brought into sharp relief the immense cultural discrepancy between those who view programming/writing/thinking as instrumental to their process of learning, understanding and discovery, vs. those who view them as necessary evils in the course of "building" a "product".

Solar energy and largescale batteries are shoring up the grid. - ERCOT officials

The moment Buffett destroys the "trade deficits are good" myth. While MMT claims imports are "free stuff," Buffett's Squanderville parable shows how sustained deficits transfer asset ownership abroad. The importing country eventually works extra hours just to pay rent to foreign

OpenAI will give you the AGI that tells you what you want to hear. xAI will give you the truth, which you will know because it will not always be what you want to hear.

It will tell us a lot about the AI race if OpenAI releases gpt-5 before xAI releases Grok-4

Elon calling for end of subsidies of all kinds - including EVs - SINCE 2013. Trump looks like a complete moron.

Why did Feynman tell David Deutsch that there'd never be any more great physicists? The reason is quite shocking!

I wonder if the AIs will take issue with us referring to them as “artificial.”