Statues

In 2006 I spoke at a conference in Budapest. At the time, there was a bunch of fascists protesting in the town square, and it was getting international news coverage.

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Ouch, Wrong Again!

Recently I wrote a piece about The AI That Will Kill Us All [stderr] and hypothesized one thing (which my entire argument hung upon) that looks pretty wrong. I hereby officially declare “I am back to the drawing board.”

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The War on Drugs

I see that Donald Trump tried to declare that opioid abuse is an Emergency. To be fair, it’s a problem; they are dangerous when abused. Probably the greatest danger is that people who are addicted to them become desperate and turn to doses that have no quality control: you may get heroin that has been cut with fentanyl, shoot your usual dose, and then you’re suddenly dead. That’s a problem.

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