Planned Cities Fail
Central planning does not work.
Politics
Why Is Moscow So Weird?
Russia is weird. “How did Moscow evolve from a swampy village in the 1100s to the biggest European city with over 20M people?” https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-is-moscow-so-weird
Why the Bronze Age collapsed
Technology shapes societies. “The difficulty involved in mining and transporting tin is one reason that access to bronze weaponry remained concentrated in military and elite institutions. The average citizen still largely relied on tools made of copper, stone, bone, or… Read More »Why the Bronze Age collapsed
Why Did Korea Split?
Russians have a history of miscalculation. “The North saw this as the South drifting apart, both as a separate country and into capitalism. They didn’t want that. And now that the Americans had left, Korea was defenseless. Kim Il Sung… Read More »Why Did Korea Split?
Dario Amodei SNL
This is exactly what AI CEOs sound to me.
Internet and Blockchain Will Kill Nation-States
Information rules. “The clergy was generally educated. They knew, among other things, the local vernacular, latin, and could read. Since the commoners didn’t speak Latin anymore, they couldn’t read the Bible directly, so the clergy became gatekeepers of the relationship… Read More »Internet and Blockchain Will Kill Nation-States
How to rage bait
Just don’t watch shit you do not know the source of.
Why America keeps losing wars
Willpower matters.
dario, please!
Why we keep trusting CEOs when their incentive is just to make more money? “I feel like Dario is torn. He wants Anthropic to have this bad boy street cred of wielders of this crazy power, yet at the same… Read More »dario, please!
Weapons of Mosquito Destruction
Kill them all? “So the challenge of anti-mosquito scientists today is: How do we come up with strategies that find and kill every single individual before they develop resistance? “ https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/weapons-of-mosquito-destruction