A Theory Of Scott Alexander which I find persuasive 20/ (twitter.com)

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A Big Little Idea Called Legibility

James C. Scott's fascinating and seminal book, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Imp rove the Human Condition Have Failed , examines how, across…

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Notes for a Theory | Alberto Garutti

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Anarchist Calisthenics, by James C. Scott

From Two Cheers for Anarchism, published last month by Princeton University Press. Scott is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University.

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erringtowardsanswers.substack.com

Intrinsic Motivation: A deep dive

I dig into the research on intrinsic motivation. Super interesting subject. Long but hopefully quite thorough.

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Parmenides: Pre-Socratic Philosophy

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Kevin A. Bryan on Twitter / X

I love that this idea has crossed into normie world (please don't look up Sutton's AI Ethics views!). If you want a very short "why does SF believe what it believes", here is the reading list I give students: https://t.co/1vkWtwWwRV pic.twitter.com/zo4YaoNSKf— Kevin A. Bryan (@Afinetheorem) September 23, 2026

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Experiments — ux-phi

Playable versions of canonical experiments in philosophy: the Socratic-questionnaire thought experiments — the trolley problem, Gettier cases, the side-effect effect, Mary the colour scientist.

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Praxis on Twitter / X

I think Eduardo Galeano in this piece does a great job pointing out how society tolerates inequalities. More importantly he exposes the sanitized terms we use to justify them. He juxtaposes concepts that our political and ethical dictionary would never allow together. When a++ pic.twitter.com/XJsvSNUxVY— Praxis (@praxiss) September 25, 2026

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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy

Better Living Through Algorithms by Naomi Kritzer

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233. "The Illusion of Thinking" — Thoughts on This Important Paper

This is a fantastic paper. I just love it. tl;dr AI is not human. Anthropomorphization has been bad for AI, LLMs, and Chat. Clippy walked so today's AI could run.

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Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, …

James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a s…

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Daron Acemoglu on Twitter / X

I recommend Columbia mathematician Michael Harris’s wide-ranging, informative and thought-provoking essay in Boston Review on AI and mathematics:https://t.co/txwAd8ri4xHarris rightly worries about the possible negative effects of AI-generated proofs and mathematics on…— Daron Acemoglu (@DAcemogluMIT) June 16, 2026

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Meditations on Machinic Desire

The philosopher and accelerationist Nick Land writes, in his 1993 essay Machinic Desire, three of the most insight-dense paragraphs I’ve ever encountered: