The extremely early "settled science" narrative on Covid's origin wound up being actively destructive of knowledge. Lab leaks are easy to cover up if global authorities are not actively pursuing evidence of them very early on. Once lost, it is likely lost forever. Great job.

This story about Tim Cook is one of my favorites ever lol

Cars are now the most expensive bumper stickers in the world

Too many books

The race with China over AI, biotech, and more poses a hard dilemma: win by embracing technologies that make us more like our enemy — or protect ourselves from tech dehumanization but become subjects to a totalitarian menace.

To defeat them, must we become them? One of those prescient essays we will be uneasily looking back on more and more over the coming years:

randy clarke had a good line about this: "not everyone who fare-evades commits crimes, but almost universally, everyone who commits serious crimes fare-evades. Not many people are going to tap in and then do armed robbery.

“The dilemma is this: each nation can either militarize, prompting the other to reciprocate, heightening the risk of an ever-more-violent war; or not militarize, endangering itself before a power that is expanding its arsenal” Eat AI Slop or China Wins thenewatlantis.com/publications/e…

Uhhh so hey there, just want you to know that autocorrect added that “!” on “On my way!” and I am not some sort of freak, even though my feelings about seeing you shortly are generally positive

Huge news. The new interstellar object is now confirmed to be a comet. It’s only the 3rd ever known object to originate from outside the solar system. If it’s a comet there’s ice. Where there’s ice, there’s likely organic molecules. We must learn as much as we can from it.

WHY SHIT NOT WORKING: EPISODE 11

Yep. I wrote about basically this a few years ago. jonstokes.com/p/welcome-to-t…

Yeah but you can read all books ever written at once if only you dare consume ᴛ ʜ ᴇ ᴍ ᴏ ɴ ᴀ ᴅ

This piece is really taking off, as I thought it would. thenewatlantis.com/publications/e…