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Geopolitics Slop is Ascendant
Prestigious think tanks and humble Substacks alike are mass-producing plausible AI-generated geopolitical analysis
Mar 25
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The Coming Apocalypse for Scientific Publishing
Price was right
Feb 14
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The Nobel Committee is Hungry for Regime Change
And they're savvier about this than we often give them credit for
Oct 23, 2025
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Huel is Fine
Breaking down the issues with Consumer Reports' investigative reporting on lead levels in protein supplements
Oct 16, 2025
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My Brush with Superhuman Persuasion
A market experiment where I get blackmailed
Oct 1, 2025
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Recent posts
Government-Funded Alchemy
Examining Marathon Fusion's "Scalable Chrysopoeia"
Jul 19, 2025
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The Cognitive Debt of Digging Through Preprints
Your Brain on MIT Media Lab
Jun 19, 2025
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AI, Materials, and Fraud, Oh My!
The red flags we should have seen earlier for a too-good-to-be-true paper on AI tool adoption at a materials research firm
May 16, 2025
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One Alien’s Trash is Another Alien’s Treasure
On the scientific debate around the first observed interstellar guest
Apr 12, 2025
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Scaling Surprise in the Southern Skies
YR4, Italian Cities, the Chicxulub Impact, and Vera Rubin
Feb 25, 2025
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Dark, Dark Oxygen
How a Nature paper commissioned by its own detractors and the credulous science reporting that followed sank the prospects of deep-sea mining.
Feb 18, 2025
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You Can Just Run Contests
If you know me, it’s no secret that I love competitive forecasting.
Feb 2, 2025
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🎵 He’s Making a PlasticList, He’s Checking it Twice… 🎵
(Thank you to the many people who subscribed because of the executive order tracking document.
Jan 27, 2025
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Executive Orders Tracking Document
I didn’t intend to send out my first post until the weekend, but some folks online gave me the idea to make a spreadsheet tracking the status of the…
Jan 23, 2025
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Jan 20, 2025
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