Steps to Phaeacia

Sort of against "if you can't program it, you haven't understood it"

And definitely against its converse

Nov 3 • Ben Chugg

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September 2026

Mapping the proof landscape

Part II on how AI is (should be?) affecting research

Sep 21 • Ben Chugg

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Knowledge without labor?

Some thoughts on how AI is affecting math and stats research

Sep 11 • Ben Chugg

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August 2026

Book Review: Bad Therapy

Abigail Shrier on why the kids suck

Aug 10 • Ben Chugg

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July 2026

Book review: American Pastoral

Roth as the anti-Dostoevsky

Jul 4 • Ben Chugg

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June 2026

Literature as extended thought experiment

Philosophers need to grow a pair and write some novels

Jun 8 • Ben Chugg

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February 2026

Book Review: Gravity's Rainbow

What makes a book great?

Feb 2 • Ben Chugg

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January 2026

Familiarity begets interest

A pleasant byproduct of learning new things

Jan 23 • Ben Chugg

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November 2025

And the Lord said to Moses, I will rain down optimization from heaven

On the false analogy between evolution and optimization

Nov 13, 2025 • Ben Chugg

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October 2025

The hard problem of community building

Reflections on RatFest 2025

Oct 18, 2025 • Ben Chugg

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September 2025

On Recht's bureaucratic theory of statistics

Engaging in the statistics wars. Does it make sense to talk about ex ante policy on its own?

Sep 18, 2025 • Ben Chugg

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August 2025

Book review: Stoner

John Williams' 1965 classic. Or, the best book ever written.

Aug 29, 2025 • Ben Chugg

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