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To end the year:

• Epoch AI’s post on Claudiness. FWIW, I think we’re on the contingent world.
• I re-read Alvaro de Menard’s great essay On the Pleb Filter.
• Máximo Sandín’s ideas on viruses and bacterias as “evolutionary engines”. I first heard about him from G. Chaitin, and now Blaise Agüera y Arcas’ What is Intelligence? book made me think about it again, especially the chapter on virality.
• hbd chick’s post on the Hajnal line.
• Casey Handmer’s Energy Predictions 2025.
• About the undersea wall from 5000 BC that was recently found in France.
• Finally, I heard from my beautiful wife about the word 木漏れ日 (komorebi) to refer to “sunlight filtering through trees”, and I dedicate this photo I took to her:

🍀