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Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later - By Lars Doucet. (opens the original)
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Five years after his prize-winning ACX review of Progress and Poverty, Lars Doucet returns in a guest post to revisit his case for a land value tax: what he got right, where he has changed his mind about tax pass-through and land assessment, the new laws in Virginia and Kentucky, and how writing about Georgism became his full-time job. * 00:00 - Introduction * 01:12 - I. Progress and Poverty * 04:03 - II. LVT Momentum is Growing * 07:11 - III. My Theory of Change Was Wrong * 07:32 - Overrated: w
Mysteries Of AI Generalization - By Scott Alexander (opens the original)
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Scott Alexander looks at three puzzles in how AI training generalizes: why training a model on one bad behavior can make it broadly misaligned, why Anthropic’s deliberately reward-hacking “Hacker Opus” stays well behaved outside graded tasks, and why the blackmail seen in AI safety tests never seems to show up in real-world use. * 00:00 - Introduction * 00:06 - One. Owain Evans * 02:10 - Two. Richard Qi * 09:39 - Three. Nostalgebraist * 13:32 - Postscript: Blackmail https://open.substack.com/pub
The Battle of Helms Deep - By Bret Devereaux (opens the original)
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Bret Devereaux examines the Battle of Helm’s Deep through military history, Tolkien’s books, and Peter Jackson’s films. All eight parts, in order, explore campaigning, armies, fortifications, weapons, morale, and the strategic choices behind the battle. * 00:00 - Introduction * 00:04 - Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part One: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate * 07:52 - Operations by the Book * 21:51 - (Fully) Operational Castles * 38:14 - Operations in Film * 48:02 - Conclusions * 54:
The Siege of Gondor - By Bret Devereaux (opens the original)
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Bret Devereaux brings a military historian’s eye to the Siege of Gondor in The Return of the King. All six parts, in order, explore logistics, fortifications, cavalry, weapons, and the human experience of battle across Tolkien’s books and Peter Jackson’s films. * 00:00 - Introduction * 00:04 - Collections: The Siege of Gondor, Part One: Professionals Talk Logistics * 02:36 - Objectives: Strategy and Operations * 07:56 - Logistics of the Army of Mordor * 14:09 - We’ve Had One Logistics, Yes. But
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - By Walter Benjamin (opens the original)
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Walter Benjamin’s 1935 essay, read in full from the Harry Zohn translation in Illuminations, with his endnotes. Benjamin asks what happens to a work of art once it can be copied without limit: what he calls its aura, its unique presence in time and place, withers, and art loses its footing in ritual. Photography and above all film become the test case, from the screen actor performing for a machine to the audience that judges like an examiner while barely paying attention. He closes on the polit
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