Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

More problems

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Just some more numbers confirming what we already know. Oil is falling, defecit is rising. I swear, one of these days we’ll have a nice post.

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Five World War I soldiers in uniform stand and sit near sandbags in a trench, with a sign reading "Surrey Lane" visible in the background—evoking camaraderie amid the Ring of Fire on the front lines.

Books

Not just the Western Front: “Ring of Fire” rediscovers WWI’s global story

Historians Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst reexamine the pivotal conflict from a grassroots perspective.

A digital collage with overlapping purple-tinted images, including a traditional building and a sculpture, explores panpsychism under the title "The Nightcrawler" on a black grid background.

Business

On consciousness, AI, and panpsychism

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Starts With A Bang

Laniakea, our home supercluster, is already being torn apart

On the largest scales, galaxies don’t simply clump together, but form superclusters. Too bad they don’t remain bound together.

A human silhouette filled with birds and insects is overlaid with a circular target, binary code, and abstract shapes against a sky background with clouds.

The Well

Social media supercharged our disagreements. Could AI help us resolve them?

Duke sociologist Dr. Christopher Bail on the tech’s potential to foster empathy in an age of division.

Abstract digital artwork featuring concentric blue circles, lines, and green geometric shapes over a dark blue and black textured background, evoking a sense of vibe physics within its captivating composition.

Starts With A Bang

Why “vibe physics” is the ultimate example of AI slop

The conversation you’re having with an LLM about groundbreaking new ideas in theoretical physics is completely meritless. Here’s why.

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