Pre-History of an Encounter

Academic Neutrality in an “Open Society”

There are few things more self-evident nowadays than the fact that many left wing academics are not so concerned with truth and facts, I’ve often…

Jul 31 • Nicolas D Villarreal

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The Inexorable Fall

My new book is out

Jul 4 • Nicolas D Villarreal

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May 2026

A Measure of Phenomenological Complexity

In my previous blog I laid out some ideas about how to measure complexity, based on the idea of complexity increasing and then falling with rising…

May 22 • Nicolas D Villarreal

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Complexity, entropy and semiotic analysis of the mind

Usually when considering the relationship between Shannon entropy, a measure of the “surprise” of a message” and physical entropy, a measure of the…

May 8 • Nicolas D Villarreal

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March 2026

What ever happened to post liberalism?

This essay is intended for readers of a post liberal tendency, written from someone who has spent the last six years engaging with this milieu…

Mar 12 • Nicolas D Villarreal

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February 2026

AI Timelines: On The Precipice?

This blog is a follow up to a previous one where I used structural linguistics and Landauer heat to do some estimates of how many Floating Point…

Feb 23 • Nicolas D Villarreal

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January 2026

Why the Rise of Gold could be the Deathknell of Global Capitalism

The price of gold has risen 80% the past year, and if central banks continue buying gold as a hedge against the dollar with its current geopolitical…

Jan 26 • Nicolas D Villarreal

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November 2025

Structural Estimates of Human Computation

Some back of the envelope math

Nov 9, 2025 • Nicolas D Villarreal

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A Minor Critique of Brenner

Out of all the various factions in Marxist and bourgeois thought on political economy, I think that the one associated with Robert Brenner at “The New…

Nov 7, 2025 • Nicolas D Villarreal

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A Guide to Using Cyberspace Effectively

Every so often I’m reminded that it’s actually a world-historical marvel of humanity that we have so much information at our finger tips, and, I realize…

Nov 4, 2025 • Nicolas D Villarreal

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October 2025

PHE Podcast Episode 2

Planning, Barter Taxes and Systems of signs

Oct 28, 2025 • Nicolas D Villarreal

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The Chinese Encounter

How China is Bringing an End to Neoliberalism

Oct 15, 2025 • Nicolas D Villarreal

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