Jay Odenbaugh reviews From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics, edited by William C Bausman, Janella K Baxter &

Peter Carruthers reviews Concepts at the Interface, by Nicholas Shea

Today’s piece is a guest post by Alex Obadia. Alex is a new program director at the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). As Alex puts it, his focus is “currently on designing new enabling trust primitives for a world where many more substrates (e.g. DNA, materials, thoughts) are programmable.” I met Alex last month at the ARIA Summit.

Mauricio Suárez reviews No Shadow of a Doubt, by Daniel Kennefick

Some time in 2023, Tom Kalil told me he thought it would be a good idea to carve out a chunk of time and get to work on some ARPA project histories.

Some time in 2023, Tom Kalil told me he thought it would be a good idea to carve out a chunk of time and get to work on some ARPA project histories. The ARPA model was proliferating, and Tom felt these pieces might find a ready audience of ARPA emulators and fans eager to make use of the actionable information. Tom, who was then at Schmidt Sciences and is now President of Renaissance Philanthropy, has good taste.

Julia Pelletier, Aja Watkins &

I made my first podcast appearance on the Foresight Institute’s podcast! The episode turned out to be a phenomenal one-hour summary of the most important ideas FreakTakes has covered. YouTube and Spotify embeddings are below.

Justin Garson reviews Death, by Philippe Huneman

James Nguyen reviews Inference and Representation, by Mauricio Suárez

Mark Wilson reviews Philosophical Mechanics in the Age of Reason, by Katherine Brading and Marius Stan