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AI, futurism, metascience, history, literature, philosophy, and whatever else I'm obsessed about at the moment. Click to read Fantastic Anachronism, by Alvaro de Menard, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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On Hair as Memento Mori
Hair, to me, represents death.I found one on my ear this morning. Not in the ear, not nestled in the canal where it might at least serve some vestigial purpose, catching dust or performing some other arcane evolutionary duty-but on the ear, sprouting from
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Links & What I've Been Reading Q1 2025
LinksErik Hoel on the semantic apocalypse. Scott replies in great form with The Colors Of Her Coat, blending Chesterton, medieval pigment supply chains, and getting meaning out of art in our time.Chow, Halperin & Mazlish on transformative AI and interest
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How to be Good at Dating
Three years ago, I was a 34-year-old who hadn't had sex in fifteen years. Since then I've failed miserably at dating, then turned into a total manwhore, and eventually found someone really special to commit to. In my previous piece "The Harem of an Autist
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The Artist Imitates the Art: On Flaubert's Bouvard et Pécuchet
Closure. I keep hearing that word.Of the qualities which ordinarily raise novels to eminence, Bouvard et Pécuchet has absolutely none. It is unfinished. It is a failure on almost every level: it is gimmicky, repetitive, the characters are shallow, there i
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The Harem of an Autist
Lord, give me chastity and continence, but not yet!St. AugustineIn 1863, William Lang ran a mile in 4 minutes and 2 seconds, a record that would endure for 80 years. Standing undefeated across the decades, across two world wars, from horse and cart to tel
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