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week 13 / 2026: markets and casinos

week 13 / 2026: markets and casinos

Reading round-up: ecomodernism chooses a weird moment to frame climate mitigation as a casino, as prediction markets expose the moral hazard of literally gambling on disaster. Plus: the accusation of technophobia reveals as much about the accuser as about the accused, if not more so.
Paul Graham Raven Mar 29, 2026
week 12 / 2026: agents and agency

week 12 / 2026: agents and agency

This week’s reading notes take a blog post by Matt Jones as their springboard, and as an invitation to ask the unacknowledged political-economic question lurking beneath even this fairly sane and sober look at the so-called “agentic” revolution. That question is: “do we really need or want this?”
Paul Graham Raven Mar 22, 2026
week 42 / 2025: reinventing the wheel

week 42 / 2025: reinventing the wheel

What’s the value of worldbuilding around the questions of a green transition, when participants could be spending their time developing products and services instead? I have answers!
Paul Graham Raven Oct 19, 2025

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