Bullet Points: Arguments about Arguments edition
(I sprained my ankle yesterday.| The Future, Now and Then
(I sprained my ankle yesterday.| The Future, Now and Then
Misgivings, Grievances, and Thanks as I look ahead to my fifteenth year.| The Future, Now and Then
Tech boosters have the memories of goldfish| davekarpf.substack.com
Tech journalists need to start moonlighting as finance journalists.| davekarpf.substack.com
Some thoughts on what these new tools are good for.| davekarpf.substack.com
Book Review: "After the Spike" by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso| davekarpf.substack.com
Substack's new funding round, doubting Epstein drama amounts to much, and NYT columnists should shut up about Mamdani.| The Future, Now and Then
Here are five things that I believe to be true about generative Artificial Intelligence as it exists today.| davekarpf.substack.com
Is he serious about the America Party? it depends!| davekarpf.substack.com
On mindless techbros and feckless Democratic Senators.| The Future, Now and Then
Two of them are real. The third, notsomuch.| The Future, Now and Then
It's speculation all the way down| davekarpf.substack.com
"There are no guarantees that things are going to turn out very well for anyone.”| davekarpf.substack.com
I’m vacationing in California this week.| davekarpf.substack.com
The load-bearing relationships between futurity-vibes and finance| The Future, Now and Then
This is GWU’s commencement weekend.| davekarpf.substack.com
Champagne for my real friends; real pain for my sham friends (amirite?)| The Future, Now and Then
A book that takes Silicon Valley's unserious ideas seriously, and then delightfully tears them apart.| The Future, Now and Then
File under: "will the United States continue to hold free and fair elections?"| davekarpf.substack.com
There are many good ideas in Klein and Thompson's book, but no solutions to the crisis we now face.| The Future, Now and Then
The elite opinion vibe shift is underway.| The Future, Now and Then
I just need to vent for a moment.| davekarpf.substack.com
Balaji Srinivasan sounds like a cartoon villain. He's taking part in a long rhetorical tradition among Silicon Valley ideologues.| davekarpf.substack.com
I give it six months before bankruptcy| davekarpf.substack.com
"And then a miracle happens" is not a plan.| davekarpf.substack.com
A review of Balaji Srinivasan's book, The Network State.| davekarpf.substack.com
Meta's policy commitments never last longer than an election cycle| davekarpf.substack.com
AI is real, but the hype is manufactured. A dose of skepticism is helpful for seeing how this story goes.| davekarpf.substack.com
(Or, an elegy for the New Organizing Institute)| davekarpf.substack.com
Trumpism won't last forever. But people are going to suffer, and it will take decades to recover.| davekarpf.substack.com
A book review of On the Edge, in Foreign Policy| davekarpf.substack.com
"Founder Mode" is such garbage.| davekarpf.substack.com
The Sierra Club has decided to dissolve its student-run arm, the Sierra Student Coalition (SSC).| davekarpf.substack.com
The Republican Party stopped trying to appeal to normies a long time ago.| davekarpf.substack.com
Ruminating on the timescale of the past eight years.| davekarpf.substack.com
The main story of the post-techlash years has been too few people with too much capital| davekarpf.substack.com
(or, the one about the Hikers in Bear Country)| davekarpf.substack.com
Lessons from the 1990s human cloning debate| davekarpf.substack.com
My advisor in college was named Paul Dawson.| davekarpf.substack.com
Hi folks, below is a letter to the Substack founders that I helped draft as part of a group of publishers seeking answers to questions about the platforming and monetizing of Nazis.| davekarpf.substack.com
Let us all point-and-laugh together| davekarpf.substack.com
I won’t pretend to know what the hell is happening at OpenAI. The story is changing by the hour.| davekarpf.substack.com
Econ blogger/Substack royalty Noah Smith tried his best to defend Marc Andreessen’s techno-optimist manifesto last week, with a 4,000+ word post titled “Thoughts on techno-optimism.” It’s a thorough post, in which Smith offers a more intellectually defensible version of| davekarpf.substack.com
On Marc Andreessen's "techno-optimist manifesto"| davekarpf.substack.com
A tour through WIRED's old "Fetish" product review section| davekarpf.substack.com
"If you don't make predictions, you'll never know what to be surprised by"| davekarpf.substack.com
An old lecture, updated because Jim Jordan has decided to take aim at my discipline.| davekarpf.substack.com
Chris Dixon must know better than this, right?| davekarpf.substack.com
What metaverse, web3, and artificial intelligence evangelists collectively ignore.| davekarpf.substack.com
Sam Altman's "Moore's Law for Everything" manifesto is a mess. Why do we still take these people seriously?| davekarpf.substack.com
