Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 367
On the Suffering of the Biosphere
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…in which I discuss the relation of interest to survival, Schopenhauer, consciousness and adaptation, motivation, emotion, pain, suffering, misery, & bloodlands…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 367
On the Suffering of the Biosphere
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…in which I discuss the relation of interest to survival, Schopenhauer, consciousness and adaptation, motivation, emotion, pain, suffering, misery, & bloodlands…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 366
A Thought Experiment of a Barren Universe
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…in which I discuss being alone in the universe, a sterile cosmos, searching for life, SETI, testing for scientific symmetry, and terraforming…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 366
A Thought Experiment of a Barren Universe
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…in which I discuss being alone in the universe, a sterile cosmos, searching for life, SETI, testing for scientific symmetry, and terraforming…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 365
Copernican Formulation of a Cosmological Anthropocene
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…in which I discuss a strong formulation of cosmological standing, global synchronicity, formalized chronostratigraphy, and the good life…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 365
Copernican Formulation of a Cosmological Anthropocene
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…in which I discuss a strong formulation of cosmological standing, global synchronicity, formalized chronostratigraphy, and the good life…
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I've also posted it on Substack:
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I've also posted it on Substack:
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Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 364
The Threshold of Cosmological Standing
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…in which I discuss locus standi, SETI, Ronald Bracewell, the galactic club, Bracewell probes, the cosmological and Copernican principles, and astrochemistry…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 364
The Threshold of Cosmological Standing
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…in which I discuss locus standi, SETI, Ronald Bracewell, the galactic club, Bracewell probes, the cosmological and Copernican principles, and astrochemistry…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 363
The Human, All-Too-Human Scale of the Universe
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…in which I discuss Copernicanism, privileged observers, human peers, peer intelligence distribution, and Hoyle on the perfect cosmological principle…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 363
The Human, All-Too-Human Scale of the Universe
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…in which I discuss Copernicanism, privileged observers, human peers, peer intelligence distribution, and Hoyle on the perfect cosmological principle…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 362
Do we live in an interesting universe?
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…in which I discuss Freud on Weltanschauungen, peer complexity, meaning in history, Alexandre Koyré, a closed world, and a clockwork universe…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 362
Do we live in an interesting universe?
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…in which I discuss Freud on Weltanschauungen, peer complexity, meaning in history, Alexandre Koyré, a closed world, and a clockwork universe…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 361
Determinables and Non-Canonical Senses
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…in which I discuss W. E. Johnson, determinables, properties of sense perception, generalizing sensory endowment, and determinables of determinables…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 361
Determinables and Non-Canonical Senses
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…in which I discuss W. E. Johnson, determinables, properties of sense perception, generalizing sensory endowment, and determinables of determinables…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 360
Concept Formation and Spiritual Aspiration
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…in which I discuss rigor, philosophy of science, intuitive formalism, secret gardens, Galilean science, and progress vs. purification…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 360
Concept Formation and Spiritual Aspiration
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…in which I discuss rigor, philosophy of science, intuitive formalism, secret gardens, Galilean science, and progress vs. purification…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 359
Technological and Engineering Ellipses
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…in which I discuss soap, Ignaz Semmelweis, antiseptic procedures, ether, Valerius Cordus, surgery, Jürgen Thorwald, and the War Triptych of Otto Dix…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 359
Technological and Engineering Ellipses
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…in which I discuss soap, Ignaz Semmelweis, antiseptic procedures, ether, Valerius Cordus, surgery, Jürgen Thorwald, and the War Triptych of Otto Dix…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 358
The Epistemic Demands of Industrialization
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…in which I discuss a fundamental question of ethics, William Wundt, the end of life, Marx on feudalism, social capital, and the experience of travel…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 358
The Epistemic Demands of Industrialization
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…in which I discuss a fundamental question of ethics, William Wundt, the end of life, Marx on feudalism, social capital, and the experience of travel…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 357
“What ought I to do with my life?”
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…in which I discuss Kant’s three questions, the moral law, teleology in the Critique of Judgment, utilitarianism, doing good better, and purposive action…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 357
“What ought I to do with my life?”
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…in which I discuss Kant’s three questions, the moral law, teleology in the Critique of Judgment, utilitarianism, doing good better, and purposive action…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 356
A Thought Experiment in Ancient Technology
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…in which I discuss idea diffusion, metallurgy, crucible steel, Hero’s steam turbine, bearings, Ulfberht swords, thermal airships, and aerial photography…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 356
A Thought Experiment in Ancient Technology
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…in which I discuss idea diffusion, metallurgy, crucible steel, Hero’s steam turbine, bearings, Ulfberht swords, thermal airships, and aerial photography…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 355
On Knowing How to History
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…in which I discuss knowing that and knowing how, Gilbert Ryle, historical reenactment, moral panics, the witchcraze, Iris Murdoch, and past passions and enthusiasms…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 355
On Knowing How to History
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…in which I discuss knowing that and knowing how, Gilbert Ryle, historical reenactment, moral panics, the witchcraze, Iris Murdoch, and past passions and enthusiasms…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 354
A Recapitulation Model of Cosmological History
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…in which I discuss Polybius on historical cycles, Vico on ideal eternal history, Schopenhauer, the liberty of indifference, and recapitulation…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 354
A Recapitulation Model of Cosmological History
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…in which I discuss Polybius on historical cycles, Vico on ideal eternal history, Schopenhauer, the liberty of indifference, and recapitulation…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 353
How many Charlemagnes are there?
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…in which I discuss evolutionary convergence, the rare Earth hypothesis, cosmological-scale cyclical history, and a universe full of Caesars and Charlemagnes…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 353
How many Charlemagnes are there?
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…in which I discuss evolutionary convergence, the rare Earth hypothesis, cosmological-scale cyclical history, and a universe full of Caesars and Charlemagnes…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 352
The Role of the Ineffable in Science
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…in which I discuss Leonard Woolley, Digging Up the Past, a science of science, ineffable observations, and the gap between the knowable and the communicable…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 352
The Role of the Ineffable in Science
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…in which I discuss Leonard Woolley, Digging Up the Past, a science of science, ineffable observations, and the gap between the knowable and the communicable…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 351
Addendum to the Chefbot Thought Experiment
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…in which I return to the Chefbot thought experiment, discussing abstract machines, classes of technologies, novel categories, and the symmetry hypothesis…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 351
Addendum to the Chefbot Thought Experiment
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…in which I return to the Chefbot thought experiment, discussing abstract machines, classes of technologies, novel categories, and the symmetry hypothesis…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 350
The Chefbot Thought Experiment
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…In which I formulate a thought experiment consisting of a cooking robot connected to a large language model, discuss novel ontologies, and consider the being of robots…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 350
The Chefbot Thought Experiment
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…In which I formulate a thought experiment consisting of a cooking robot connected to a large language model, discuss novel ontologies, and consider the being of robots…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 349
Idealization in the Study of History and Civilization
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…in which I discuss ideal histories and civilizations, perfection, properties of a simple pendulum, and Einstein’s photon box thought experiment…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 349
Idealization in the Study of History and Civilization
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…in which I discuss ideal histories and civilizations, perfection, properties of a simple pendulum, and Einstein’s photon box thought experiment…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 348
Clustering Below the Threshold of Automation
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…in which I discuss electromechanical and “pure” technologies, diesel engines, Wankel engines, turbine cars, elevator control systems, and anonymization…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 348
Clustering Below the Threshold of Automation
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…in which I discuss electromechanical and “pure” technologies, diesel engines, Wankel engines, turbine cars, elevator control systems, and anonymization…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 347
Negating Nietzsche’s Three Kinds of History
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…in which I discuss monumental, antiquarian, and critical history, Last Men, purposive movement, Ettinger on Heidegger and Arendt, and a finished paper…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 347
Negating Nietzsche’s Three Kinds of History
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…in which I discuss monumental, antiquarian, and critical history, Last Men, purposive movement, Ettinger on Heidegger and Arendt, and a finished paper…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 346
Making Excuses for Murderous Modernity
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…in which I discuss Karl Popper, open societies, Hannah Arendt, Isaian Berlin, tribalism, Dostoyevsky, A Passage to India, and Yourgrau on Gödel and Einstein…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 346
Making Excuses for Murderous Modernity
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…in which I discuss Karl Popper, open societies, Hannah Arendt, Isaian Berlin, tribalism, Dostoyevsky, A Passage to India, and Yourgrau on Gödel and Einstein…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 345
A Thought Experiment in De-Industrialization
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…in which I discuss the Morgenthau Plan, implicit research programs, how much big science can be replicated as bench science, and the STEM cycle…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 345
A Thought Experiment in De-Industrialization
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…in which I discuss the Morgenthau Plan, implicit research programs, how much big science can be replicated as bench science, and the STEM cycle…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 344
Seriation and the Existential Principle
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…in which I discuss existence in time, seriation, unicorns, natural histories, the reconstruction thesis, observation time scales, and an addendum on thinking…
Grand Strategy Newsletter
The View from Oregon – 344
Seriation and the Existential Principle
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…in which I discuss existence in time, seriation, unicorns, natural histories, the reconstruction thesis, observation time scales, and an addendum on thinking…