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The last two thousand, not the next two thousand

Y'know, I'm totally happy for people to (very, very clearly) use my series "[Extropia's Children]( https://aiascendant.com/p/extropias-children )" as a basis for their own work - w…

...Clarke's novel is the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth Google result, _and_ the sidebar, when one (incognito-)searches "Piranesi".

I'm reading _Divine Invasions: A Life Of Philip K. Dick_ and just got to the point where he sold his first short story. He was paid $75 for it, at a time when the mortgage on his (…

it's remarkable to me that one can write an entire essay about Piranesi without even mentioning Susanna Clarke's great novel PIRANESI, a pretty significant instance of his cultural…

How rationalism, cryptocurrencies, effective altruism, and modern AI philosophy/doom were all birthed from an obscure 90s mailing list.

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Wood dust on furniture? The prospect of alcohol in hotel rooms? Tiffany lamps? Seriously?

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This really depends on how you look at it. On an absolute inflation-adjusted dollars-per-person-per-year basis, rather than a relative / percentage basis, GDP growth over the last …

? "And then I walk around the streets and see all these homeless" refers, clearly, to the homeless "living on the streets."

This is wildly incorrect. As of Dec 2019, there were 5,000 "unsheltered" / "sleeping rough" people in the UK, population ~65,000,000, according to The Economist (cite: https://www.…