Archive - Ulysses

There's No Single Objective Reality

Drawing out the implications of one of the weirdest thing I've ever come across in physics

Mar 18 •

Thermodynamics of Synthetic Fuels

Hydrocarbons fueled industrial civilization to the abundance of the modern age. Can we make them cheaply without killing ourselves? Yes. Here's how.

Mar 14 •

February 2025

What's left to shock us about the future when we assume a compounding rate of technological change?

Feb 23 •

Thought Experiments in Destiny

Is there such a thing as fate, and if not, can't you just invent it?

Feb 8 •

January 2025

The Final Act in the Story of Humanity

Jan 24 •

Civilization is Way Older than We Think

In the past technological developments compounded very slowly, yet somehow the Sumerians invented dozens of incredibly important things. Or they just…

Jan 18 •

In the early 1900's the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn gets involved in geopolitics

Jan 14 •

Predictions for a Science Fiction Future

Everyone makes predictions. How about some that are genuinely out there?

Jan 12 •

The War in Heaven

A war of the machines rages above, and below, a war of alignment

Jan 10 •

Indistinguishable from Evil

The world sure seems messed up these days. Is it truly incompetence or just plain evil? Lets speculate

Jan 9 •

December 2024

Debunking the Fermi Paradox

Modeling the future of advanced intelligent life as humans with better rockets is fundamentally mistaken

Dec 20, 2024 •

November 2024

Electromagnetic Boundary Conditions

The nature of experience, intelligence, and consciousness is mysterious and complicated, but there's only one available physical force to explain them…

Nov 29, 2024 •

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