Because specialization is for insects.
The Finnish prime minister Petteri Orpo seems to be implying he'd like Ukraine to make "peace" with Russia, so that Finland's ailing economy would get a boost before the April 2027 parliamentary elections. While this conclusion is not yet supported by evidence of Finnish aid to Ukraine fading, Orpo's incentives and his past behaviour give cause for concern.
The new U.S. National Security Strategy shifts the United States to an unreliable ally at best - an active threat at worst. Europe and in particular NB8 countries on NATO's Eastern Flank must draw their own conclusions, and prepare for a new world - by an independent deterrent if necessary.
Technology has already given us weakly godlike powers. As our tools become even more powerful and accessible, the defining challenge of this century is setting the limits to their use -- and to individual power.
Every civilization faces a choice: share power or run out of planet. Environmental limits cannot be enforced by decree or managed by elites; they can only be sustained through fairness, accountability, and democratic control.
Note: This is output from ChatGPT5 Plus’s Deep Research (light) mode, 25 SEP 2025. References have been checked and some light editing done by me Janne M. Korhonen. I m going to return to this topic later, but due to popular demand, chose to share the note as-is. Researchers have begun using large language models [ ]
Could the Kremlin regime mobilize the Russian industry to produce enough war material to tip the scales in the war? In brief, the most likely answer is “no.” Russia does not have the industrial base required to produce enough modern weapons fast enough to prevent the Kremlin from losing the war, and converting civilian industry [ ]
Stuurman, Siep (2017). The invention of humanity: Equality and cultural difference in world history. Harvard University Press. This is an important book that, in my opinion, ought to be read by everyone who is seriously interested in greater equality, or wants evidence that human thought has proceeded towards greater equality over time: slowly and unevenly, [ ]
In early 2002, I had an epiphany. I had been depressed for months and queried whether there is even any point in living any more: in the long run, we are all dead, and whatever we achieve will crumble in the sands of time. In a century, barely anyone will even know that you ever [ ]
Extinction risks or X-risks are an interesting research topic that, however, has its own share of problems. I have one article in the works about some of its blind spots, and will be getting back to the topic later. Meanwhile, here s something on classifying extinction risks, based on the following paper: Cotton‐Barratt, O., Daniel, M., [ ]
Jessica McKenzie writes about the less known trend in Bitcoin mining. Bitcoin miners and fossil fuel firms, which increasingly tend to be the one and the same thing, are buying gas-fired generators and use them right next to gas wellheads. End result: to solve the crypto sudokus, fossil gas that would otherwise not be extracted [ ]