Why philosophy still matters

Old arguments are not obsolete; they are load-bearing.

Bubal Think Tank9 September 20269 min read

The oldest questions are the ones we keep re-answering.

Topics

Why attention became the scarcest resource of the decade
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The quiet return of industrial policy
Governments are picking winners again. The vocabulary changed before the policy did.
What frontier models still cannot reason about
Benchmarks reward pattern-matching. The harder test is judgement under uncertainty.