Wag the dog. “The transformation of superintelligence from internet philosophy to boardroom strategy represents one of the most successful ideological campaigns of the 21st century. Tech executives who had previously focused on quarterly earnings and user growth metrics began speaking… Read More »The Politics Of Superintelligence
But it is not. “Geography is not destiny.One way to put it: Geography is the hardware, our institutions are the software. When both work well, a country is unstoppable. With bad hardware but intelligent software, a country can go far.… Read More »Argentina Could Be a Superpower
Games and movies use bad formations. “It is thus worth noting even here – we’ll see it even more clearly in a moment – that the most dense formation was not, in actual battle conditions, generally the best, because soldiers… Read More »Collections: Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Really insane engineering.
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Why is this hidden? “Samsung’s hidden Connectivity labs unlock powerful Wi-Fi tools.” https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-samsung-connectivty-labs-secret-wifi-menu
Logistics is fun. “So this army is stopped in what looks to be more or less the middle of the day. From a logistics perspective, this is a disaster. As I tell my students, pre-modern armies are like sharks, they… Read More »Collections: The Preposterous Logistics of the Loot Train Battle (Game of Thrones, S7E4)
Knowing a lot of frameworks helps you also outside of history. “Historians learn a lot of different frameworks because each one exposes the gaps in the others: there is no perfect framework (and no way to proceed without a framework… Read More »Collections: What Do Historians Do? – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Nice explainer on how (historical) science works. “Consequently it is important for us to remain ‘up to date’ with everyone else’s research, which is why we spend so much time and effort (seriously, writing is hard) packaging our research so… Read More »Collections: How Your History Gets Made