Sunday, April 12, 2026

What if Christianity and Islam Co-Existed with Classical Philosophy Communities, like Epicureans and Stoics?

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This is the most recent installment in the alternate history series. The last was The Mongols Were Good For Europe . Shrine to Za...
Sunday, April 5, 2026

False Analogies in AI Job Replacement Scenarios

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AI is happening. Arguments that "it can never do X" these days often look silly within months. Right now is as bad as it will ev...

Why You Should Considering Caring About What (Some) Other People Think

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If you are a normal human being who already cares about what other people think, and know how to discriminate between the ones you should ca...
Saturday, February 7, 2026

The Day the Aliens Took the Nukes Away

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The day the aliens took the nukes away was a Tuesday in March. It was just past lunch in Europe. People on the U.S. East Coast were just w...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

The Mongols Were Good For Europe

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For the most recent alternate history thought experiment, see Ancient East Indian Settlement of Australia . For the next one, see What if C...
Monday, October 20, 2025

We Make Numbers From Shapes: Hints from Neurology

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As a standard disclaimer, I am not a mathematician, and you should take these as observations rather than arguments. (For example, the amou...
Friday, October 3, 2025

Trump is Our First Barracks Emperor: America's Crisis of the Third Century

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States pass through lifecycles of 200 to 250 years. If this statement is true, then to isolate the process from other variables we should l...