From the New World

October 2026

Seoul

An Ergodic Bubble

Oct 18 • Brian Chau

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September 2026

Post-Christian America

What did you think Post-Christianity meant? Vibes? Essays? No, it means a totalitarian surveillance state.

Sep 23 • Brian Chau

56

14

7

The Worst Are Full Of Passionate Intensity: An Anthropology of AI Safety

“Why do they do lie so much?”

Sep 10 • Brian Chau

151

38

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August 2026

Automating Investigative Journalism

What I've been building.

Aug 10 • Brian Chau

42

13

9

July 2026

Guangzhou

I was walking in Guangzhou when it hit me — there’s an impressionist geography of the downwardly mobile.

Jul 31 • Brian Chau

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2

7

Shenzhen

The Most American City in China

Jul 29 • Brian Chau

93

16

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Who is Blocking Automated Vehicles?

A Quantitative Analysis

Jul 19 • Brian Chau

25

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The Meaning of Humanity

Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat.

Jul 18 • Brian Chau

30

5

Wuhan

My Review

Jul 18 • Brian Chau

10

2

2

Technological Opportunity

The Whitepill has Just Begun

Jul 10 • Brian Chau

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