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Planetary Intelligence
Musings on space resources and planetary development.
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Where are the Luddites in the Culture series?
AI backlash and branches on the tech tree
Book Review: Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
Penguin Random House, 2025
Mars as a crucible for Culture
The value of settling a new planet
A Scenic Value Index for the Planets
Predicting the aesthetic quality of extraterrestrial landscapes
Arranging Atoms
We make moral judgements about how atoms are arranged.
The Wonder of the Solar System
You rarely see “wonder” among the rationale for human space exploration and expansion.
We’re Not Going to get Critical Minerals from Space
And that's OK
It Won’t Take 1 Million People for a City on Mars to be Self-Sustaining
The real number is likely far less
A Clean Slate for Space Resource Extraction
Surprisingly, one has to make a case not to import coal to the Moon