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The World After Cheap Energy | Frankly 137
The World After Cheap Energy | Frankly 137 (Recorded March 31, 2026) This week’s Frankly is the final installment in a three-part series on the role oil plays in modern civilization, prompt...

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What Happens When the Oil Stops Flowing | Frankly 136
What Happens When the Oil Stops Flowing | Frankly 136 (Recorded March 31, 2026) This week’s Frankly is the second in a three-part series on the role oil plays in modern civilization, prompted by the r...

What Happens When the Oil Stops Flowing | Frankly 136

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What You Actually Need to Know About Oil | Frankly 135
What You Actually Need to Know About Oil | Frankly 135 (Recorded March 30, 2026) This week’s Frankly is the first in a three-part series on the role oil plays in modern civilization, prompted by the re...

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Cyborgs Will Kill the Corporation On Excorporations and the Death of the Firm

Cyborgs Will Kill the Corporation

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AI Cybersecurity After Mythos: The Jagged Frontier Why the moat is the system, not the model

AI Cybersecurity After Mythos: The Jagged Frontier

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Bits In, Bits Out Six years of AI and the world got stupider

Bits In, Bits Out

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The two kinds of desire, and one of the most important things I know pull over push

The two kinds of desire, and one of the most important things I know

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(free version) Metashamanics A Summary Overview

(free version) Metashamanics

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Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion For decades, the artificial intelligence (AI) “singularity” [vinge1993] has been heralded as a single, titanic mind bootstrapping itself to godlike...

Agentic AI and the next intelligence explosion

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Putin Tried to Freeze Ukraine. Instead, He Sparked an Energy Revolution. Russia is bombing fossil-fueled power plants, so the country is building solar and wind.

Putin Tried to Freeze Ukraine. Instead, He Sparked an Energy Revolution.

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You're probably addicted to thinking On how to break the deepest habit and live more intuitively

You're probably addicted to thinking

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Intelligence, Agency, and the Human Will of AI The Alignment Problem is Us

Intelligence, Agency, and the Human Will of AI

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Have Your Factory Call My Factory In this installment of our Obliquities editorial column, we argue that the social kernels circulating in intelligence media are the equivalent of i...

Have Your Factory Call My Factory

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Six Selfish Reasons to Have Kids Until the sale of contraception pills in 1960, no one needed a reason to have children.

Six Selfish Reasons to Have Kids

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A World at the Edge of Change | Frankly 134 (Recorded April 2nd, 2026) This week's Frankly is another in a recurring series, Uncomfortable Questions in Unsettled Times, where Nate poses ques...

A World at the Edge of Change | Frankly 134

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You Are Not a Function Why the Race to Stay Useful is a Trap

You Are Not a Function

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Blaise Agüera y Arcas | What is Intelligence? | Long Now Talks
Blaise Agüera y Arcas | What is Intelligence? | Long Now Talks Blaise Agüera y Arcas’s Long Now Talk took us on a journey through What is Intelligence?, his groundbreaking new work connecting the evolutionary d...

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‎Arco (2025) directed by Ugo Bienvenu • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd 10-year-old Arco lives in a far future. During his first flight in his rainbow suit, he loses control and falls into the past. Iris, a girl his age...

‎Arco (2025) directed by Ugo Bienvenu • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd

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Fifteen things I'm really glad I did, and you could do too Ending with some wonderful news

Fifteen things I'm really glad I did, and you could do too stephenreid.substack.com/p/fifteen-th...

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The Duke Discover reviews, ratings, and trailers for The Duke on Rotten Tomatoes. Stay updated with critic and audience scores today!

The Duke

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Tool Shaped Objects In 1711, a toolmaker in Kyoto named Chiyozuru Korehide began forging kanna blades for the carpenters building the temples at Higashi Hongan-ji.

Tool Shaped Objects

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Creative Machines An essay on AI creativity, art, and how human and machine imagination might converge.

Creative Machines

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The left is missing out on AI As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right

The left is missing out on AI

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AI power users can't stop grinding AI was meant to give us more time off, but instead many are finding it compels them to take on more and more work

AI power users can't stop grinding

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The Human Alignment Problem What AI psychosis reveals about the real task of our time

The Human Alignment Problem

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AI as Karmic Accelerator A Buddhist view on the AI Alignment Problem

AI as Karmic Accelerator

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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new...

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

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AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.

AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it

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The Nectary The Nectary teaches the practices that we’ve found helpful in becoming the adults our culture needs. We are leading-edge facilitators of Circling, ...

The Nectary

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In Tech We Trust The god-like authority of technology in the modern age – and what it means to set a wiser course

In Tech We Trust

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