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Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews: Volume 2
AI skepticism—road-trips through rural China—the philosophy of grand strategy and leisure—Libertarianism—another mediocre business book—another amazing…
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R.W. Richey
A Review of Nate Silver: The Election and His Book "On the Edge"
He talks about the Village, and the River, but what we really need is a Redoubt.
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Evaluating Epstein: Conspiracies and a Review of One Nation Under Blackmail
How does one evaluate the evidence for a conspiracy?
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October 2024

Short Fiction Book Reviews: Volume I
A strange YA story from Gaiman, an even stranger one from qntm, Arthur Miller being kind of sad, Richard Llewellyn being really sad, two pulpy but good…
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AI and Forecasting
There are many areas where AI might appear to do great, but on deeper inspection it's actually awful. Forecasting is one of those areas and this is that…
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Mid-length Non-fiction Book Reviews: Volume I
Multiple books on ruminating without marinating—techniques drawn from Buddhism, Christianity, and Science! Also a review of Dumb Money (the book) and…
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Reviews of "Journey of the Mind" and "Against the Grain"
Book reviews from my post Superminds, States, and the Domestication of Humans
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Superminds, States, and the Domestication of Humans
How durable is the state? How resistant is it to being overthrown? How closely does it reflect our desires? Is it possible it has its own desires?
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September 2024

Review of DON'T DIE by Bryan Johnson
A narcissistic dialogue around ideas that are either annoyingly fractured or wholly unrealistic.
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Short Book Reviews: Volume VIII
Gay subculture, conservative futurism, wokeism run amok, Werner Herzog at his herzogiest, the Holocaust, Russian lit, Kazuo Ishiguro, weird Canadians…
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Divine Disappointment and Mortal Shame: A Review of "Is God Disappointed in Me?"
The book's answer is "No!" My answer is "Yes... But only because He has so much hope."
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August 2024

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