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Paul Topping

@paultopping.bsky.social
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Founder and former CEO of Design Science, Inc. Now working on artificial general intelligence (AGI). Innate knowledge is the biggest missing piece.

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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is great news! That she is even thinking about it proves how out-of-touch she is. No, it's not "her turn". www.axios.com/2026/09/20/k...
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Many ex-aides to Harris betting against a 2028 run
Early polls suggest she's the Democratic frontrunner. If she opts out, it will scramble the primary.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
@accuorg.bsky.social Your latest CVu has an article by Francis Glassborow, "Design a Perfect Language", which ends with a request for comments but doesn't say where such comments should be posted. I'm new to CVu so this may be a newbie (dumb) question.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
@rhodesben.bsky.social Excellent segment on Fareed Zakaria's show this morning.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
It doesn't have to work 100%. In focus groups, many Trump voters talk like they buy the whole Biden weaponization meme. It's the Fox News effect.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
No way! I can't even imagine eating these, let alone that they taste good. Perhaps the ultimate frankenfood. www.foodbeast.com/news/a-food-...
foodbeast.com
A Food Creator Just Made Crispy Transparent Chicken Wings
A viral food creator makes transparent fried chicken wings using molecular gastronomy techniques while maintaining crispy skin.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
... and because the Star Trek franchise has grown stale and uninteresting in Paramount's hands. techcrunch.com/2026/03/09/x...
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Xprize founder Peter Diamandis launches new contest to manifest a new Star Trek   | TechCrunch
The famed author and investor has launched the Future Vision Xprize with sponsors like Google, Marc Benioff, Ben Horowitz, to fund optimistic sci-fi films.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
It's not so much about rich people's pay as their need to share their success with their employees. This is better than taxing them because it creates synergies. @TheEconomist www.economist.com/leaders/2026...
economist.com
Don’t go after the rich to fix broken budgets
It will not work, and is wrong in principle
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
www.economist.com/podcasts/202... A good summary of AI's world models, but this is just wrong: "I think there are a growing number of people who are looking at what you have with the top tier of AI agents now and going by any definition of AGI that isn’t unachievable, we’re there already."
economist.com
Can “world models” fix AI’s blind spots?
Our podcast on science and technology. The next frontier for AI involves giving it digital representations of the physical world
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I disagree. Bondi is Trump's fixer, not a proper Attorney General. Her only rational choice is to attack her opponents. She's very good at it. Depth has nothing to do with it. This is the job she chose.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Ends with: 'Asked how he would compare the president with Lincoln, who freed the slaves and whom Claremonsters regard as a model statesman, Mr Kesler hardly pauses: “Like Lincoln, he’s a defender, really, of human rights.”' Missing an "LOL" I think. www.economist.com/united-state...
economist.com
Meet the brains who explain Trumpism
The Californian think-tank that applies intellectual gloss to MAGA
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Good one! "That is the problem with big echo chambers: from the middle of them, you can’t feel the walls." www.economist.com/culture/2026...
economist.com
Who’s afraid of Tucker Carlson?
The provocateur’s story is also the story of America, says a new biography
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
To my way of thinking, "he didn't have to do that" means the shooting was unjustified and, therefore, a crime. www.comicsands.com/smith-good-s...
comicsands.com
ESPN Host Slammed After Sharing His Hot Take About ICE Shooting Of Renee Good
Seriously, Stephen?
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Obviously MAGA is now behind the overthrow of Maduro because it was successful. Before, they recognized that such an effort had a good chance of failing. But, most importantly, they don't care at all whether it was legal or the right thing to do. www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
economist.com
Our polling with YouGov shows what MAGA-land thinks about Venezuela
Comparing polls before and after the capture of Nicolás Maduro reveals a sharp turn in Donald Trump’s base
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
This is the way! www.noahpinion.blog/p/where-does...
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Where does a liberal go from here?
Our movement overreached and crashed. But the fundamental ideals are still just as powerful.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
It's what Hitler would have done.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Yeah, that's not how I remember it. No one held back because there were too many guilty politicians. Instead, the guilty politicians successfully blocked our efforts to obtain justice. And, by "guilty politicians", I mean virtually all Republicans.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Not measuring the true impact of a policy change IS ignoring the possible harms of well-meaning policy. We should decide how much weight to give those hurt by a policy rather than have that done for us.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Obviously. My point is that the losing side has to be quantified for a fair assessment.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Yeah, I don't listen to women, I just vote for them, Hillary and Harris. Your insane takes on people are why Trump won. Take a chill pill and look around you.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
All this talk about MTG and her possible changes in position makes me wonder why it should matter. I would assume that most of those commenting would never vote for her no matter the office she seeks. I certainly would not.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
For 50 years the right has been telling us that the appropriate response to this is to open fire on these goons. They say we need assault weapons as a bulwark against a tyrannical government snatching people off the streets.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I'm surprised to see this kind of thing in 2025. Anyone who thinks the OS or the programming language one uses makes a good programmer is himself not a good programmer. www.yegor256.com/2025/10/05/w...
yegor256.com
Programmers, Don't Use Windows!
Windows turns programmers into mouse operators. macOS, built on Unix, keeps the command line alive—where everything is a file, tools connect through pipelines, and real programmers stay in control.
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 19/09/2025
Oh my god lol This Dutch late night host absolutely eviscerates Trump and Disney- you gotta watch how
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Excellent article by @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social taking issue with @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social‬'s recent “[Charlie] Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the right way” article. As Grossman says, the MSM "are adamantly opposed to recognizing bad faith". This is exactly the problem.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
A good rant on science criticism from Sabine Hossenfelder. youtu.be/ZO5u3V6LJuM...
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I can't believe this really happened.
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Any journalists thinking of writing about AI should read this excellent article by Melanie Mitchell first. aiguide.substack.com/p/magical-th...
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Magical Thinking on AI
A Response to Thomas Friedman's Recent AI Columns in the New York Times
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
So much for Charlie Kirk being against political violence. They are all liars! Every single one of them!
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Wordlass @wordlass.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
But also:
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Er, no he wasn't. Free speech but hateful, lying, lacking good-faith argument, and promoted violence. He had the right to do it but we do not have to like it or honor it. Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Every Democrat should listen to this podcast. It shows why Dems are losing right now: youtu.be/SJHNayq91Rs...
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Ukraine and the West should be thinking up excuses for Putin to withdraw from the war he started. I can't think of any good ones but my hope is smarter minds can come up with some. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
economist.com
Ukraine shows off a deadly new cruise missile
But sceptics wonder if it is too good to be true
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
A new publication. I'm interested to see what they have to say. The Argument www.theargumentmag.com
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The Argument | Jerusalem Demsas | Substack
Join Us. We're Libbing Out. Click to read The Argument, by Jerusalem Demsas, a Substack publication.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
This is right! The Democrats Are Losing Voters — But They Don’t Really Want to Hear Why www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-democr...
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The Democrats Are Losing Voters — But They Don’t Really Want to Hear Why
The refusal to speak plainly — to say what needs to be said even when it's uncomfortable — is exactly why young voters are walking away.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"He's in the process of establishing a dictatorship." It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Short answer: yes, it does. popular.info/p/does-trump...
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Does Trump's alleged letter to Epstein "sound like" Trump? An investigation.
On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal published a bombshell report about President Trump's relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Is Trump trying to make America less attractive to immigrants by making its citizens poorer, destroying its health and educational systems, and generally making it a nastier place to live for non-rich folk? Sure seems like it.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
An excellent debate! youtu.be/Mq_-WNRwcjc...
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Did Harvard Have it Coming? Larry Summers & Alan Dershowitz Debate
YouTube video by Open to Debate
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Not Bekah @vectorboy.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/06/2025
Jane Goodall Returns From Latest Expedition With Annoying Chimp Accent theonion.com/jane-go...
Jane Goodall Returns From Latest Expedition With Annoying Chimp Accent
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This is important!
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
May it rain on the stupid military parade! #NoKings
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Musk will undoubtedly point out that giving rich people a tax break, throwing people off Medicaid, and increasing the debt were NOT what voters wanted. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
wired.com
The Elon Musk and Donald Trump Breakup Has Started
Trumpworld insiders fear that Elon Musk's attacks on Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" could kill it—and are already advising candidates to turn their backs on the world's richest man.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Except that David Pogue is a science and technology journalist so Musk's response is not totally out of line, regardless of what we might prefer.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
This is one of the best ads I have ever seen and I can’t believe I missed it
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Such a smart person is fooled by ChatGPT. How embarrassing. No, don't believe the hype. www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
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My ChatGPT Teacher
Do believe the hype.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
AI is not coming to take your jobs. Not this AI anyway.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
But the automobile was the death knell for buggy whips. techxplore.com/news/2025-04...
techxplore.com
Television wasn't the death knell for cinema, and that holds lessons for the creative industries and AI
As television grew rapidly in popularity in the second half of the 20th century, many people assumed it would cause a knock-on crisis for the film industry. After all, it meant that viewers no longer ...
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Trump's "respect" for the Supreme Court is part of his excuse for disrespecting lower courts.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Pretty, but a distinct McDonald's vibe.
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Paul Topping @paultopping.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I guess one is being too cautious on Bluesky if one doesn't get blocked by a few people. Happy to say I don't have that problem.
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