The Rise and Muddy End of Leptis Magna
How Roman engineers built a masterpiece to save Leptis Magna – and why their brilliance only delayed the inevitable
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Wolfram and “ruleology”: when “simple rules” promise too much
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On (Super-)Intelligence
If Man is the King of Nature, who is the King of Kings?
January review
Monthly recap
21 grams
How Much Does a Soul Weigh?
The Dark Law of Emergence
We are used to believing that by breaking a whole down into its tiniest parts, we can understand its essence. But what if the opposite is true? What if, by diving into the smallest details, we hopelessly lose the very phenomenon we seek to understand?
A Society Split by Choice
The Ancient Divide Between Comfort in the Crowd and Freedom in the Wild
Why Polymaths Will Rule the Future
How AI will really change the course of human history
Why We Cling to Our Tribes
Ancient group-thinking is shaping modern politics
How Collective Behavior Creates Physical Reality
Rethinking fundamental constants, from gas laws to the electron’s charge, through the lens of emergence
Future (Pet) Sematary
Our Halloween take on dead people and pets
Artificial Intelligence: How Does a Digital Pupil Understand the World?
An Epistemological View
Homo Mercator — entrepreneurship as the missing evolutionary driver
What if humanity’s real evolutionary leap wasn’t bigger brains or bigger tribes, but the moment we turned surplus into currency and trade, competition, and culture followed?
Two-Year Anniversary
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