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Structural Estimates of Human Computation
Some back of the envelope math
Nov 9, 2025
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A Minor Critique of Brenner
Out of all the various factions in Marxist and bourgeois thought on political economy, I think that the one associated with Robert Brenner at “The New…
Nov 7, 2025
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Nicolas D Villarreal
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A Guide to Using Cyberspace Effectively
Every so often I’m reminded that it’s actually a world-historical marvel of humanity that we have so much information at our finger tips, and, I realize…
Nov 4, 2025
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The Chinese Encounter
Oct 15, 2025
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Nicolas D Villarreal
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The Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall, Crisis and Reformism
Sep 16, 2023
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The Political Economy and Ideology of the Present Crisis
Feb 24, 2025
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Nicolas D Villarreal
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A Guide to Using Cyberspace Effectively
Nov 4, 2025
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The Platypus Ideology
Jul 13, 2024
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Merely Language Machines?
Jul 17, 2025
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Structural Estimates of Human Computation
Some back of the envelope math
Nov 9, 2025
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Nicolas D Villarreal
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The Problem of Consciousness and AI as an Ethical Subject
After my last post on the nature of qualia, I had several long discussions with readers in the comments and on twitter which made it clear there were…
Oct 12, 2025
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Materialist Semiotics and the Nature of Qualia
I recently read the essay by China Miéville “Beyond Folk Marxism: Mind, Metaphysics and Spooky Materialism” which is all about criticizing Marxism and…
Oct 8, 2025
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My Novel: Caeruleus
In 2016 I was a freshman in college, and it was then that I published the novel I had labored on for most of high school.
Oct 24, 2024
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Future Encounters
What do they live like, without their love given form?
Oct 7, 2021
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Gun Train
Living steel.
Oct 1, 2021
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