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44 from 31 Aug 2024 to 23 Oct 2026
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2026 28

  1. France needs to read my paper
  2. How to deal with Network Effects and Natural Monopolies
  3. Read My Damn Paper
  4. Memorisation versus Generalisation for AI and for Us
  5. Perfection is Faceless
  6. What do we do if many people aren’t working?
  7. Why do we assume everyone should be working?
  8. There’s a bug in the Economy, and Fable found it.
  9. Millions of Lifetimes
  10. To my friends in China.
  11. Things that “A New-ish Theory of Economics” predicts
  12. Working on Economics with Fable 5
  13. A New-ish Theory of Economics
  14. How Terence Tao’s metamathematical insight translates to how we need to think about the economy.
  15. The room the economy can’t see
  16. Make-work and Sub-subsistence work
  17. How to make LVT politically doable.
  18. Labor pressures causing market distortion and a minimally invasive solution.
  19. The Tick-Tock AI Development Cycle.
  20. Labor is a market distortion, We Need VAT and UBI.
  21. Does using LLMs make me dumber?
  22. Systems are Everything, Software is Systems
  23. Cooperating in a Conversation
  24. In Defense of Rediscovery
  25. My Homelab
  26. Cat
  27. We really do need to get money moving differently.
  28. Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon

2025 8

  1. Calculating a Wordle Leaderboard
  2. You should not write library style code! (probably)
  3. Hate, Frustration, Annoyance, and Anger
  4. People are just as bad as my LLMs
  5. Why not use DeepSeek to reward DeepSeek?
  6. Powerful AI
  7. Things I learned building a model validation library
  8. We’ve lost our respect for complexity.

2024 8

  1. If I Could Wave a Magic Wand
  2. Are LLMs Any Good at Ranking People part II
  3. Large Language Models and The Bitter Lesson
  4. Are LLMs Any Good at Ranking People?
  5. We need to get money moving differently
  6. Player Agency: The Curse of the Video Game
  7. You Can Gaslight Yourself Into Loving Someone
  8. Complexity Fills the Space it’s Given.