Fragmentary Errata

Remembering Nick Simmons

My friend Nick Simmons died suddenly a few weeks ago.

Dec 29, 2025 • mattparlmer

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February 2025

Blitzrobotik

China is automating its industries at world-historic scale and speed, America must respond in kind

Feb 14, 2025 • mattparlmer

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On AI incapability

The big labs should stop nerfing practical model capabilities by restricting tool use

Feb 13, 2025 • mattparlmer

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January 2025

America can beat China on energy

It's time to leapfrog China in the single most important industrial input

Jan 28, 2025 • mattparlmer

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April 2021

Keep the podcast below the noise floor, feat. John Dulin

John Dulin (@JohnDDulin on Twitter) and I both come from a cohort of people born in the late 1980s and early 1990s whose understanding of armed conflict…

Apr 1, 2021 • mattparlmer

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February 2021

Political navigation with Tom Fish

Tom Fish (@ThomasDFish on Twitter, @guerillero on Wikipedia and elsewhere) and I go way back.

Feb 11, 2021 • mattparlmer

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January 2021

Scraping for Whitepills: 2020 in Review with Tyler Hudson-Crimi

My buddy Tyler (@tylerehc on Twitter) and I had initially planned to do a full-spectrum year-in-review episode, covering the bad, the worse, and the…

Jan 8, 2021 • mattparlmer

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The Boston Yankees vs Eigenrobot

The illustrious Eigenrobot comes on the show to talk about a wide range of subjects.

Jan 3, 2021 • mattparlmer

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What happens when the CCP decides that you need to die

The manner in which a state kills people has major implications for that state's structure

Jan 2, 2021 • mattparlmer

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Years are arbitrary abstractions

Some personal reflections on 2020

Jan 1, 2021 • mattparlmer

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December 2020