noahpinion.blog

There is no “Indian Question”

Throughout most of the 2010s, there was a popular notion that society should basically ignore and shun people like that, and that if we all simply shunned them, and pressured our friends and colleagues to shun them, they and their views would vanish from American society — or at least remain marginalized. That approach failed. Anti-immigrant ideas didn't remain marginalized — in fact, they took over the country, despite their continued unpopularity among the general American public.

stratechery.com

2026.38: Doomforce

rising discontent across Chinese social media is not necessarily a reflection of the limits of that aforementioned censorship, but possibly a window into how the Party manages social malaise.

wired.com

The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible

Trump administration officials tell WIRED that if Anthropic wants to rerelease Fable 5, it will need to ensure the model's guardrails can't be circumvented. Security experts say that can't be done.

noahpinion.blog

Is China's soft power really rising, or is America's just crumbling?

China is a deeply repressive nation, with universal surveillance, fine-grained media and speech control, and ubiquitous censorship. That's the kind of society where only anodyne, cautious artistry can flourish, except in tiny subcultural pockets too small for the government to worry about.

dwarkesh.com

The Library of Alexandria isn’t where most ancient knowledge was lost

the authorities and censors are always worried about the exact wrong things given 20/20 hindsight.