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The winners of the 2022 Hugo Awards
The Tyranny of the Wagon Equation: Pre-Gunpowder Military Logistics and the Minimum Donkey Rate

Thus, the harmonic donkey transfer, using four donkeys, yields a maximum transport distance 1/12 * L0 longer than the pairwise donkey transfer.
Peter Thiel's Religion - David Perell

I’ve never met Peter Thiel. The contents of this essay are based on public information and my own intuition. Hopefully, some of it is interesting. Inevitably, some of it is wrong. I am not a Christian and only have a basic understanding of Christian theology.
What Will Sex Robots Do to Humanity?
- HN comments
How civilization came to be and how social media is ending it

One Party State - by Mike Solana - Pirate Wires

Insofar as the bounds of our politics are shaped entirely by what we’re allowed to say, the tech industry’s communication capture appears to now arrive at its inevitable conclusion: if one of your two major political parties can’t speak, you are living in a one party state. But don’t worry, the “dangerous” men are gone.
New report says self-harm posts are surging on Twitter
Everyone’s Mad at Cloudflare; Is There Room for Principled Takes on Moderation?
Effective altruism’s most controversial idea