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Understanding AI as a social technology
Speed, shoggoths, social science
Sep 12
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Henry Farrell
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Silicon Valley’s Reading List Reveals Its Political Ambitions
An article from Bloomberg Weekend
Sep 11
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Henry Farrell
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Process knowledge is crucial to economic development
The message of Dan Wang's new book.
Sep 2
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Henry Farrell
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August 2025
Short posts on useful concepts I : Flattery Inflation
Grotesque self-abasement can be entirely rational.
Aug 27
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Henry Farrell
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The twilight of tech unilateralism
Suddenly, America is in a whole different world
Aug 19
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Henry Farrell
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Large language models are cultural technologies. What might that mean?
Four different perspectives
Aug 18
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Henry Farrell
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The AI democracy debate is weirdly narrow
There are plausible reasons for how it ended up that way
Aug 5
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Henry Farrell
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This Chip will Self-Destruct
The U.S. wants to track the location of every AI microchip. And it also wants the power to remotely shut them down. Can the rest of the world stomach…
Published on False Positive
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Aug 1
July 2025
The old Democratic party doesn't fit new media
Melding new modes of policy making with new modes of public making
Jul 30
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Henry Farrell
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The Rich Are Not Like You and Me
That's a problem for social science. And more importantly for us
Jul 27
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Henry Farrell
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This Simple Chart Explains Why Columbia Caved To Trump
Which Muppets Actually Run the University
Jul 24
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Henry Farrell
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When tech CEOs are like grumpy ducklings
An interview with Le Grand Continent
Jul 19
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Henry Farrell
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