The message of Dan Wang's new book.| Programmable Mutter
Grotesque self-abasement can be entirely rational.| Programmable Mutter
Suddenly, America is in a whole different world| Programmable Mutter
Four different perspectives| Programmable Mutter
There are plausible reasons for how it ended up that way| Programmable Mutter
Melding new modes of policy making with new modes of public making| Programmable Mutter
That's a problem for social science. And more importantly for us| Programmable Mutter
"It's MAGA baby ... it's a brave new world"| Programmable Mutter
As I’ve noted occasionally before, one of the most potentially useful things that academics do is preparing syllabi, and hence organizing information about the world.| Programmable Mutter
Outdated science fiction is hobbling our dreams.| Programmable Mutter
What large models share with the systems that make society run| Programmable Mutter
Now it risks becoming one.| Programmable Mutter
If you like this newsletter, you'll very possibly like this book.| Programmable Mutter
The lightning-fast path to tearing down due process| www.programmablemutter.com
Technology and politics in an interdependent world. Click to read Programmable Mutter, by Henry Farrell, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.| www.programmablemutter.com
The cult-like battles between e/acc and doomers| www.programmablemutter.com
Which Muppets Actually Run the University| www.programmablemutter.com
The actual problem is that no-one is really in control| www.programmablemutter.com
How old theories explain the new technology of LLMs| www.programmablemutter.com
Foreign policy minefields in the era of Trump| www.programmablemutter.com
AI, Renaissance wizardry and dark inhuman forces| www.programmablemutter.com
Liberals and libertarians should make common cause against it| www.programmablemutter.com
The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics| www.programmablemutter.com
Big fix liberalism, adaptive institutions, supply-side progressivism, democratic steering, repurposed neoliberalism and cyborg bureaucracy. That's some mouthful.| www.programmablemutter.com
The intellectual blind spots of anti-anti-neoliberalism| www.programmablemutter.com
On James Scott and technology| www.programmablemutter.com
The Vibes Ain't Nothing But the Vibes.| www.programmablemutter.com
Like capitalism, LLMs are haunted: voids that seem to speak| www.programmablemutter.com
AI, Renaissance wizardry and dark inhuman forces| www.programmablemutter.com
What Stafford Beer and Dan Davies say and why you need to read them| www.programmablemutter.com
Political economy should steal the best tricks of science fiction and techno-thrillers.| www.programmablemutter.com
What LLMs can do. And what they can't.| www.programmablemutter.com
What Lovecraft's monsters _actually_ tell us about Large Language Models| www.programmablemutter.com
Strange beliefs, fights over money and bad science fiction| www.programmablemutter.com
