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Aug 17, 2022

In Part 1, I laid out the simmer scenario as an alternative to explosion, stagnation in collapse, in which growth slows down sufficiently to remain…

Jul 29, 2022

An alternative to explosion, stagnation, and collapse

Jul 28, 2022

Why there will be many more effective altruist billionaires

Jun 30, 2022

An interesting pattern recurs across the career of great scientists: an annus mirabilis (miracle year) in which they make multiple, seemingly…

Apr 14, 2022

10x engineers, tech bubbles, and the PayPal mafia

Apr 12, 2022

I worked for ten years with John Tukey at Bell Labs. He had tremendous drive. One day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered that John…

Mar 20, 2022

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