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What Should We Do With Vibes-Based Analysis?
The Vibes Ain't Nothing But the Vibes.
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Henry Farrell
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Underground Empire is a Prime Day deal
Buy it! Read it! Tell your friends about it!
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Henry Farrell
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Silicon Valley and the Second American Century
How Sandhill Road got back with the national security state
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Henry Farrell
15

June 2024

When AIs outperform the experts that train them, is that AGI?
A new paper suggests that the answer is no
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Henry Farrell
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Dictators are plagued by information problems too
We've no good evidence that China does it better than the U.S.
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Henry Farrell
9
Icehenge
My introduction to it
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Henry Farrell
4

May 2024

Google AI fails the taste test
Large language models have complicated consequences for brands
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Henry Farrell
10
Large Language Models are Uncanny
Like capitalism, LLMs are haunted: voids that seem to speak
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Henry Farrell
4
Vico's Singularity
AI, Renaissance wizardry and dark inhuman forces
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Henry Farrell
19

April 2024

The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Seuss
The ordinal society and the oversharing economy
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Henry Farrell
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Cybernetics is the science of the polycrisis
What Stafford Beer and Dan Davies say and why you need to read them
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Henry Farrell
25
Today's hackers wear green eyeshades, not mirrorshades
Accountancy as a lens on the hidden systems of the world
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Henry Farrell
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