Notes from the Circus

Notes from the Circus

Situational Awareness
One day in July: the mechanism, the structure, and the first casualty
Jul 31 • Mike Brock
The Automated Understudy
AI benchmarks, what they actually measure, and what the market pays for the number
Jul 30 • Mike Brock
The House of Ellison is on the Brink
Everything the world’s briefly richest man built is failing at once
Jul 28 • Mike Brock
The Man Who Productized Himself
Naval Ravikant and the manufacture of Silicon Valley “wisdom"
Jul 27 • Mike Brock
The Radical Left Mostly Doesn’t Exist
The reactionary machine’s real job is casting.
Jul 27 • Mike Brock
The Race to Nowhere
Chinese open-source AI is not a threat to America. It is a mercy.
Jul 27 • Mike Brock
The Doomsday Moat
The AI Industry Cannot Deliver the Returns It Promised. So It Made Extinction Part of the Pitch
Jul 25 • Mike Brock
The Moon Does Not Prove Physicalism
How science mistook the success of its method for evidence about the nature of reality
Jul 19 • Mike Brock
The Kingdom of Property
A reply to Patrick Carroll on libertarianism, definitions, and the road to feudalism
Jul 18 • Mike Brock
In Defense of (Liberal) Conservatism
What must change if the republic is to endure
Jul 18 • Mike Brock
No Eulogy
What the Tributes Will Not Say
Jul 12 • Mike Brock
When is Political Violence Justified
What the Liberal Tradition Says on the Subject
Jul 12 • Mike Brock
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