Notes from the UAE

AI, sovereign wealth, and strategic autonomy

Dec 18, 2025 • Samuel Hammond

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June 2025

Do LLMs really reason?

a Hegelian perspective

Jun 10, 2025 • Samuel Hammond

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Hegel and the AI Mind

Reconstructing Hegel's Logic and Idealism through the lens of computer science

Jun 5, 2025 • Samuel Hammond

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April 2025

Oren Cass’s Labor Theory of Value

Revisiting The Once and Future Worker

Apr 29, 2025 • Samuel Hammond

25

2

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The Strategy Behind the Stupidity

Unpacking the origins of Trump's disastrous tariff plan

Apr 7, 2025 • Samuel Hammond

60

10

7

January 2025

DOGEmaxing

we do a little government efficiency

Jan 25, 2025 • Samuel Hammond

60

46

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November 2024

Voting as a collective action problem

If you thought herding cats was hard, try herding libertarians

Nov 5, 2024 • Samuel Hammond

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13

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September 2024

Deflationary Liberalism

Social contract theory from the bottom-up

Sep 27, 2024 • Samuel Hammond

43

13

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Disembedded Liberalism

"Neoliberalism" as globalized technocracy

Sep 20, 2024 • Samuel Hammond

63

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August 2024

What "neoliberalism" isn't

The first in a series

Aug 25, 2024 • Samuel Hammond

50

1

The EA case for Trump 2024

Counting up the utils

Aug 2, 2024 • Samuel Hammond

74

124

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July 2024

In defense of weird

Weird is good

Jul 30, 2024 • Samuel Hammond

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