When robots run amok
Argues that runaway drones and machines will become as routine as petty crime, so cities need robot-response teams built like firefighters rather than police to combat a new nuisance.
Author: rensi
A better measure of economy
Argues GDP and income are poor measures of prosperity and proposes median personally owned, liquidatable wealth as a better indicator of how ordinary people actually live.
The Sane AI Slow Proposal
The author proposes capping any company at 10 percent of server-grade GPUs, with progressive taxes on excess, to prevent AI monopolies, preserve competition, and force algorithmic progress rather than compute brute force.
Which side would you pick?
Argues countries should align with open AI ecosystems rather than US proprietary stacks, framing the US demand to pick sides as hegemonic coercion and open source as protection against vendor lock-in.
Europeans Are in More Danger Than They Realize
Argues that Russian hybrid attacks pose less danger to Europeans than their own governments, which use the fear to justify permanent emergency powers and surveillance, as happened in the post-9/11 United States.
ASML: Suffocating the World
Argues ASML’s monopoly on EUV chipmaking machines and export controls choke global progress, and calls for essential semiconductor technology to be opened so all countries can build their own.
The Most Dangerous People
Argues that politicians are the most dangerous people in ordinary life because power corrupts and elections are too slow to constrain them, so systems should be designed around distrust, limits, liability, and constant oversight rather than trusting better leaders.
Real danger of the immigrants
Argues immigrants only threaten democracies that lack strong constitutional rights protections, contrasting US assimilation with European preferential treatment, which it says teaches newcomers to demand privileges.
The Appeal to Humanity Fallacy
The article argues that appeals to humanity are rhetorical tricks that hide who is included and excluded, and that genuine care must be specified for each individual rather than claimed for an abstract whole.
You should protest against the datacenters
Argues protesters should oppose data centers not for taxes, water, or noise, but because closed models fence off public resources and concentrate control over essential compute infrastructure.