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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 16/10/2026

It is good to work at a think tank, and to spend so much of my day working on ideas. Think tanks think.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 14/10/2026

Do you suffer from AI psychosis? The robot doctor is in, and ready to check your vibes. andrewmbailey.com/ai-psychosis/

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 18/09/2026

not punching up, but smirking up

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 03/09/2026

it is very American to oppose PhD in bio

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 27/08/2026

new job at the Bitcoin Policy Institute in DC.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 01/07/2026

One of the main jobs of an interviewer like Klein is to get the subject to say interesting things. I think it worked in this case. For example, Rufo on conspiracy theorists on the right.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 18/06/2026

people wonder about good masculinity; yet its perfect image was given to us over a half century ago

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 29/05/2026

you just know this Irritating Gentleman has some amazing AI hot takes

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 14/05/2026

"Authors should avoid citing their own work in a way that could reveal their identity." 🤔🤔🤔

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 11/05/2026

New article: "Who is God?". Develops themes in my book with @bradleyrettler.com on divine personality, and some new problems for its main idea. Bonus: a goofy LLM analogy I couldn't quite get rid of except by publishing! triptychjournal.com/article.html...

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 10/05/2026

"Alignment" is from corporate governance, and means obedience. And no machine can obey humanity. So what "alignment" really means is: obedience to some people.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 09/04/2026

20 years ago today — 5 days before the deadline and back when I had a leather jacket a dog and a jawline — I was plucked off a waitlist and admitted to the philosophy PhD program at Notre Dame. What a ride it's been: the heights and the depths. I'm grateful for them all.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 23/03/2026

Broke: the world went to crap in 2016 (Trump). Woke: the world went to crap in 1913 (Federal Reserve Act). Bespoke: the world went to crap in 1622 (ascent of Cardinal Richelieu).

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 20/03/2026

learning is food, and it is not good to starve by way of the chatbots

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 18/03/2026

Wise words from Federalist No. 43 (James Madison)

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 13/03/2026

Stephen King has a great essay about the difference between being 19 and 39. I think about this paragraph, in connection with higher education as we know it. A nightstick-wielding Patrol Boy is on the prowl.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 12/03/2026

*allegedly. He pulled his name off that whitepaper so fast!

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 04/03/2026

Protos is broadly skeptical about bitcoin and crypto. But to their credit, they never shy from saying truthful things that sound positive, when apt. Good job, @protos.com.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 04/03/2026

We must think more about the sadness of computers.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 04/03/2026

Outsourcing thought to AI comes from the same place as outsourcing governance to authorities. From Baudrillard's Impossible Exchange.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 02/03/2026

You understand philosophy a lot better when you see it as The Inter-discipline

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 28/02/2026

oh good, they've moved past Epistemic X to Non-Epistemic X

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 25/02/2026

A more general principle here is worth noticing — good education often involves uncovering new sites for agency. There's a reason I end many of my lectures with "the choice is yours"! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.16656

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 17/02/2026

my kind of pope: "Do not renounce your ability to think"

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 17/02/2026

Academic slop has long been with us. Witness: this analytic philosophy generator I made as an undergraduate in 2005.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 11/02/2026

I renounce Satan and all his works, and career-worship, and the vain idols of analytic philosophy. But this is kind of fun. publishingforthecycle.com

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 09/02/2026

I re-read Stephen King's Dark Tower books every year or two, and occasionally revisit bits and pieces of the 2017 film, in the hopes that it was better than I remembered. My memory, I'm afraid, is sound. The movie is flat. So disappointing!

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 28/01/2026

The best horseshoe theory is a 3D political compass, where all four extreme corners bend towards a totalitarian singularity. Their uniting impulse is the Reformer's: I know how society should be run, and family, state, church, and capital must bend to my vision.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 01/12/2025

These paragraphs are relevant to positive normative assessments of bitcoin, too. Not only do they not fit the negative vibes or expectations in technology ethics, the main consequence isn't a policy intervention. It's a judgement: bitcoin is good.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 01/12/2025

Interesting hypothesis about AI ethics: "The prevailing negativity is a result of the particular way the discipline is institutionally organized, which pressures AI ethicists to portray AI in a critical light."

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 27/11/2025

the people are starting to understand

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 04/11/2025

saving this bad boy in my jpgs folder for future use in all group chats

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 13/10/2025

Audiobook coming soon -- finally! Thank you to the dozens of people who begged our publisher to do this.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 08/10/2025

the charts from this new Deutsche Bank report are kind of funny. look at what you have to do to the y axis to make bitcoin and gold performance look even remotely similar across this 2012-2025 timeframe

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 06/10/2025

A useful resource is this book, published just this summer. It's a good read, and includes most of the classic AI skeptic arguments the internet knows well by now. If you're at all like me, you'll find it both irritating and fun.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 06/10/2025

I have never started getting interested in some new tech stack -- 3D modelling (90s), web development (2000s), bitcoin (2010s), chatbots (2020s) -- without feeling like I am late. But if you just stick around for a while, that feeling goes away. And there's always more to learn.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 06/09/2025

middlemen have their place (from Tibor Fischer's My Bags are Big; a good read)

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 31/08/2025

If the reviewers are right, maybe this book isn't so great. But you gotta hand it to Millgram for the title. "Why Didn’t Nietzsche Get His Act Together?" is an amazing book title.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 26/08/2025

I can't remember the last time the news cycle synced so well with my teaching. In 35 minutes, I'll be lecturing on discretionary monetary policy, central bank independence, and the monetary rule of law bitcoin offers as an alternative.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 25/08/2025

Some highlights. I'd love to hear from more academics and writers who they think their greatest critic has been, and what they learned from those exchanges.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 18/08/2025

"fewer yachts, more hemorrhoid cream" A curious phrase in an otherwise practical and well-argued post about how deal with the hedonic treadmill and empty pursuit of positional goods. Link below.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 10/08/2025

I don't always get quoted in my local paper of record. But when I do, I am unable to refrain from saying what I really think about crypto token pumpers

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 05/08/2025

Gerrymandering illustrates how automation in policy can be better than discretion. If you give a legislature the power to chop things up as they will, they will do so in ways that benefit the dominant local party.

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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 05/08/2025

politician ::lies:: world ::sighs:: me ::sighs not so::

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