If Dario Amodei told me the sun rises in the east, I would want three other witnesses. He runs Anthropic, the company that builds Claude.
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The Sky, the Pile, and the Plant, Part II
Inherit the Remains In March 2024 I put a short item in the Fides et Ratio archive under the title “Sweetwater Turbine Dumping Ground.” Sweetwater
The Sky, the Pile, and the Plant, Part I
The Sky We Were Told Not to See I can still see the road. Ted and I were traveling east on Texas State Highway 100
The Citizen’s Burden: Integrity, Participation, and the Duty That Remains
The more seriously one believes the stakes of the present moment matter, the less coherent voluntary withdrawal becomes. That is the proposition that governs this
Twenty-Five Years Later: Never Forget
Twenty-five years ago this morning, Ted and I were in our backyard in Rockville, Maryland, with our brand-new baby daughter. It was the first real
E Pluribus Unum Means We Are One People, Not a Nation of Immigrants
A powerful and timely reminder: America’s founding motto “E Pluribus Unum” (Out of Many, One) means we are to become one unified people, not a