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Artificial “intelligence” cheats at chess.

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Destroying “enchantment” in the arts “A political agenda dominating is maybe the commonest cause of deadly disenchantment.”
Basic Needs “… I dream of a simple mechanical vehicle that even I — the most un-mechanically-minded man in the Western world — could fix with a simple instruction manual.”
Why Starship Matters “The good news is launch capacity will increase by 1000x while costs will fall. The bad news is that none of the legacy aerospace companies or organizations are ready for this.”
Wright on Frieren “… what it means to be mortal amid a world that will go on without us once we depart.”
Idiocracy and the Dumbification of America “[AI] will succeed precisely by diminishing what human beings are capable of.”

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Decline and fall

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The Blog That Was Thursday
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Wonderful Things
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Hungarians and the Fermi Paradox
I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup
Julia's Circle of Life
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Transgressing the Boundaries
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Christian Classics Ethereal Library
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Harrison Bergeron
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The God that Flickered
The Greatest of All Novels
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