Noema’s Top 10 Reads Of 2025
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Madness In Washington
Trump's AI policy doesn't make any sense
Can Humanity Trust TIME's "Person" of the Year?
From blackboards to black vestments, experts' "blah blah" words, inevitability, and digital theophanies
Open Thread 412
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What Is Liberal Futarchy?
What measurable outcomes should a futarchy government try to maximize?
Wellbeing and preference-satisfaction
Video And Podcast Resources On Cicero's On The Nature Of The Gods book 1
presentation and criticism of the Epicurean position on divinity
Is the Tao smarter than the Dow?
A high-return investment hiding in plain sight
A Life That Cannot Be A Failure
How you can prevent animals from spending millions of years in a cage and save hundreds of lives without any personal sacrifice
Thomas Aquinas’ Discussion of Law and the Sapiental Mediation of Reason and Revelation in the Summa Theologiae
an agora presentation turned into a paper, which I never got around to publishing
A Governance Innovation Crisis
Consider two possible ways culture could be kept adaptive:
A Status Story of Modern Abstraction
Ten days ago I posted on the modern rise and fall of abstraction, focusing more on the most potent changes to our highest most powerful abstractions, ones which often influenced many fields at once.
The Antinomy of Capitalist Politics
Tarrying with its real in the arrival of artificial general intelligence
It's Bad To Hear Thirty-Seven Reasons Everything Sucks
How the internet makes people hate everything
“You could use an editor”
And other impertinences
Suggested Readings
A few recommendations by Figs in Winter for your reading pleasure
The Creative Intuition Of Frank Gehry
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Why The World Is Underestimating AI Progress
Underrating exponential growth
Undefinable yet indispensable
Despite centuries of trying, the term ‘religion’ has proven impossible to define. Then why does it remain so necessary? - by Kwame Anthony Appiah Read on Aeon
Wealth, Reason Weaken Culture
What could cause rich healthy peaceful societies like ours to so consistently become “decadent”?
Think For More Than Nine Seconds Before Coming to a Strong View
The nine second rule
The Death Of The Scientist
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On the differences between the Stoics and Spinoza
Two deterministic philosophies, one crucial distinction: teleology
Being in the world: from Plato to Heidegger
What does it mean to ‘be’? This excerpt provides a brief intro to Heidegger’s philosophy, via jazz, cooking and carpentry - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
Can machines suffer?
We once denied the suffering of animals in pain. As AIs grow more complex, we run the danger of making the same mistake - by Conor Purcell Read on Aeon
A Classroom Exercise About Temperance: How Many Drinks At The Holiday Party?
a potentially revealing question I ask my ethics students in many courses
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Links For December 2025
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Fanaticism Dominates Given Moral Uncertainty
If you're morally uncertain, you should behave like a fanatic
Myth and Metaphysics
A quantum physicist, an essayist, and a historian discuss the role of myth in sense-making...
Roads of the Roman Empire
Travel the roads of the Roman Empire – a bold project mapping 300,000 km of a vast, ancient network is brought to life - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The Politics Of Superintelligence
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Inhuman
Right now, a calf is crying out.
Early Socratic dialogues: Laches
What, exactly, is courage?
The empty ideology
Liberalism hasn’t delivered on its promises in Africa. The alternative will be found in ideas rooted in Africa’s own soil - by Gabriel Asuquo Read on Aeon
Hinternet Essay Prize Contest
A Conversation with Carlyn Zwarenstein
Reminders From Seneca About Maxims . . . But Also Stoic Quotes
put them in context and make sure they’re real
My Big Ask
I’ve noticed after several years writing on cultural drift, I’ve yet to tempt anyone to work with me on understanding or fixing it, nor to indirectly support such efforts.
The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe
Maybe the best paper ever
How Robert Frost writes a poem
How did Robert Frost so perfectly capture a moment of timelessness? Discover the hidden craft in this classic’s simplicity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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