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The offside algorithm, or, what the World Cup taught me about our AI future

In case you want my opinion: yes, Egypt and Croatia were discriminated against; Karma caught up with Portugal, which lost in the round of 16, but now I don't want Argentina to win despite being a Messi fanboy.

The offside algorithm, or, what the World Cup taught me about our AI future
Ranganaut
July 09, 2026

42.3 Modeling Continued

I've been silent with my 42 questions for a few weeks, but that's because I got sucked into writing another publication here on Leaflet called The Daily Planet, and I'm somewhat proud to say that I've been posting daily there for the last two and a half, three weeks. But unfortunately, that's meant that I have kind of left 42 Questions by the wayside.

Ranganaut
September 03, 2025

42.2: On Models

Philosophy, in my view, is continuous not just with the sciences, which it's been throughout its history, but also with design, architecture, engineering, medicine and therapy - what you might call the professions. As you can see, I'm not talking only about the making professions, but also the healing professions. Some of these professions have emerged out of philosophy (which I will call P- from now on) and others have an independent history. The new philosophy - henceforth P+ - takes us back to the drawing board and asks us to take a fresh look at the philosophical impulse.

Ranganaut
August 12, 2025
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42.1

The Adams Scale of Progress

Ranganaut
August 05, 2025
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The Interverse

Some speculations based on Kate Armstrong's lovely piece.

Ranganaut
July 02, 2025

When I was the only person in the room who hadn’t been abducted by aliens

Meeting John Mack

Ranganaut
June 19, 2025

Polycrisis : Treaty :: Polyconflict : Security

Here's an equation for you:

Ranganaut
June 18, 2025