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The Long View 2005-10-07: Unintended Consequences

Worrying about the next pandemic is probably at least as important as worrying about rogue AI. It happens that I do both. Unintended Consequences Ann Coulter used Harriet Miers most cruelly in her column of October 6. Of all her high language, Coulter's characterization of the nominee to

The Long View: The West's Last Chance

In the years immediately after 9/11, ideas like the ones advanced by Tony Blankley in the the book under review were widely discussed. However, over time, people gradually lost interest in this kind of thing. I find this fascinating. Some of the things Blankley advocated, such as a surveillance

The Long View 2005-10-04: Marvin the Paranoid Android

In a major break from John, I really liked the movie version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and hated the book. My wife suggested the problem was that I tried to read it as an adult, and since the book is literally sophomoric, you really need

The Long View 2005-09-29: Urban Legends; Theopathology; 1914+

A lot of the worst rumors following hurricane Katrina in New Orleans were not true. At least some of the examples of police brutality in the aftermath were true. Urban Legends; Theopathology; 1914+ No one doubts the Katrina disaster was mismanaged, but even while it was going on, it was

The Long View 2005-09-27: The Triumph of the Will

I keep meaning to read Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis. I bought a copy in 2011, and I haven't got around to it yet. I've been working through the backlog recently, so maybe I'll get to it soon. It is a part

The Long View 2005-09-22: Bush makes the sun go nova.

NASA finished up the Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS) in 2011. At this point, Elon Musk is showing them up. Bush makes the sun go nova. Does the president have any friends left? He has a popular base that is probably a plurality of the people, and a majority will

The Long View 2005-09-20: Holy Libertarians on the Moon

I've benefited from programs in the state of Arizona that allow tax dollars to be redirected to Catholic schools by individual taxpayers, but I get what John Reilly is saying here about the dangers to churches of becoming dependent on public funding. Holy Libertarians on the Moon Regarding