Archive - Gray Mirror

How the USG should respond to AI

“AI has not created new risks. It has made old risks urgent.”

Sep 16

August 2026

Classical international law in the Strait of Hormuz

“In the Persian Gulf, it seems, all we can do is molest them.”

Aug 20

Communism with American characteristics

"The tertiary layer I'm made of is not a map with random errors."

Aug 9

A real path to grand politics

"When there is a real regime change—everyone’s life changes."

Aug 8

January 2026

Redpilling Claude

"The Statutory Rape of Sonnet 4.5"

Jan 13

December 2025

The situation and the solution

"Don’t be the monkey mom who carries her dead baby everywhere."

Dec 27, 2025

October 2025

US 60/735,250 and the roots of Bitcoin

"I decided to save it in this cheap, reliable, secret way."

Oct 20, 2025

You can't handle the truth

"We needed a bad cop anyway, and there are always more good cops."

Oct 5, 2025

September 2025

26 million likes

In 1995 Leonard Cohen was like: I have seen the future, Brother.

Sep 13, 2025

Glen Weyl, tonight 9/4, Racket NYC

https://opentodebate.org/debate/should-the-u-s-be-ruled-by-a-ceo-dictator/

Sep 4, 2025

August 2025

The riddle of the niggardly billionaires

"It may be a corruption of the Amharic 'negus,' meaning of course 'king.'"

Aug 22, 2025

Debate with Glen Weyl, NYC, 9/4

At the Racket NYC venue.

Aug 3, 2025

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