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And much of it inaccessible to others, let alone to AI

Time will tell whether it’s a crazy position or not. The best we can do is make our own choices.

AGI with people skills?

There are less reductive forms of materialism. For the view of a Nobel prize physics laureate see A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down by Robert B. Laughlin. From the philosophy world, read Manuel DeLanda or Alicia Juarrero.

Odd — server can't be found

In my household, we refer to coins as “parking tokens”.

Can you be one without the other? Serious question – I’ve written five books, and the first draft was like 5% of the work.

> 3. Why the Obvious Answer Fails: The Center-of-Mass Trap

You can @decorate a for-loop?

I wish there were easier ways to play with syntax in Python, but there we are.

My take (several years old now) https://www.agendashift.com/done

> It’s one of the ways you can tell the true lover of the emdash from an LLM

Quite apart from this tiresome and unreliable LLM detector, it’s also a way tell an American from a Brit. We Brits use spaces (and endashes).

Michel Barnier (EU's Brexit negotiator and later PM of France) suggests otherwise.

Exclusive: Former chief Brexit negotiator says staying out of euro and Schengen area would be ‘perfectly possible’" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/18/uk-could-ke...

Via (with a rather more ironic headline) Paul Krugman: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-trump-champion-of-...

Via the BBC: Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c621z28z138o

Reminds me of Ackoff’s Idealised Design [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_planning#Idealized...

Not a core tenet [note 1] at all - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessationism_versus_continuati...

[note 1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/tenant-vs-tenet-diff...