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Essays for the slower questions.
The longer pieces live on Substack: psychology, philosophy, technology, and the occasional argument with the news. The weekly AI analysis runs separately on the AI Index, so the essays here can stay slow.
A few worth starting with
Wealth, Power, and the Quiet Lie
Priestley and Stevenson argue over the UK's economic turmoil: entrepreneurship as the way forward versus wealth disparity as the core problem. Both arguments hold up less well than their proponents think. 04 Mar 2025The Dawn of AGI: A Future We Can Shape
Predicting the future is usually a fool's errand. Why venture an opinion on artificial general intelligence anyway, and what's worth preparing for rather than worrying about. 20 Feb 2025The Fractured West: A Political and Psychosocial Odyssey
Beneath the apparent progress of rockets, AI and global connectivity sits a Western world riven by division. A long look at how we got here, and what the psychology underneath it suggests.Also in other formats
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