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Blueprint for Disaster

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articles: 10
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active: 2017-12-18 → 2026-05-27

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#artificial-intelligence ·2 #climate-crisis ·2 #voice-assistant ·1 #alexa ·1 #speech ·1 #linguistics ·1 #nuclear-energy ·1 #renewable-energy ·1 #james-lovelock ·1 #moon ·1

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VA Valentin Muro · Blueprint for Disaster

There’s no pill that makes you smarter

Nootropics promise cognitive enhancement, but the science is weaker than the culture that keeps wanting them to work.

May 20, 2026 · 7 min read · 50 claps paywalled #modafinil #smart-drugs #neuroscience

HUM LIF

VA Valentin Muro · Blueprint for Disaster

The sticky reality of sex with robots

People seek intimacy, but not in the way many had thought.

Mar 26, 2026 · 7 min read · 23 claps paywalled #sex-robots #robosexuals #psychology

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VA Valentin Muro · Blueprint for Disaster

Why it took so long to return to the Moon

The real puzzle is how the first trip happened so quickly under such extraordinary political conditions.

Apr 02, 2026 · 6 min read · 10 claps paywalled #moon #artemisii #artemis-program

Why it took so long to return to the Moon

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VA Valentin Muro · Blueprint for Disaster

Letting AI reimagine the past is probably a bad idea

What looks like harmless restoration can quietly replace historical evidence with synthetic memory.

May 27, 2026 · 5 min read · 10 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #historiography #history

Letting AI reimagine the past is probably a bad idea

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VA Valentin Muro · Blueprint for Disaster

Do you remember when social media still felt social?

When sharing turned into performance, silence became the easiest way out.

Apr 20, 2026 · 6 min read · 3 claps paywalled #social-media #mental-health #social-fatigue

Do you remember when social media still felt social?

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VA Valentin Muro · Blueprint for Disaster

The challenge of learning to speak robot

Voice assistants work best when we change how we speak, revealing the hidden constraints of human–computer interaction.

Dec 18, 2017 · 4 min read · 0 claps paywalled #artificial-intelligence #voice-assistant #alexa

SCI ECO LIF

VA Valentin Muro · Blueprint for Disaster

The nuclear option

Why the path to net zero may run through the technology we were taught to fear.

Apr 06, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps paywalled #nuclear-energy #climate-crisis #renewable-energy

BIO LIF

VA Valentin Muro · Blueprint for Disaster

Humans are unique. So what?

Studies on animal intelligence challenge the belief that humans are uniquely rational or morally central.

Apr 01, 2026 · 5 min read · 0 claps paywalled #exceptionalism #evolutionary-biology #primatology

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VA Valentin Muro · Blueprint for Disaster

That time the US classified math as a military secret

A decades-long effort to control encryption ran into a simple constraint: knowledge that can be rediscovered cannot be contained.

Apr 30, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps paywalled #cryptography #privacy #surveillance

That time the US classified math as a military secret

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VA Valentin Muro · Blueprint for Disaster

Science was never meant to be breaking news

The logic of journalism and the logic of science are structurally incompatible. We keep pretending otherwise.

Apr 10, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps paywalled #science #journalism #critical-thinking