Archive - Analog Futures

Published on Astral Codex

An essay I wrote about David Foster Wallace was published on Astral Codex

May 2 •

Arielle Friedman

April 2025

Stagflation, Stag Hunt Dilemma, and Stag Parties

Three takes, unrelated to current events

Apr 8 •

Arielle Friedman

December 2024

Three Visions for Leftism

The ghost of leftism past rears its head with three recent news stories

Dec 20, 2024 •

Arielle Friedman

November 2024

Maybe it was…

Rumination on a significant turn of events

Nov 9, 2024 •

Arielle Friedman

October 2024

Culture War analysis on the current and future state of woke

Oct 10, 2024 •

Arielle Friedman

July 2024

Information Theory and the Trump Assassination Attempt

Exploring recent events at all levels of abstraction, from the object-level to the meta

Jul 24, 2024 •

Arielle Friedman

June 2024

An intro to this blog in easily-digestible list form

Jun 19, 2024 •

Arielle Friedman

December 2023

Churning Boredom into Beauty

Ever since I started my new job, I worry I’m becoming boring. Part of it’s the practical aspects: my schedule is insane. Client meetings, gym, hurried…

Dec 19, 2023 •

Arielle Friedman

May 2023

Showdown: Who is more complex, a human or ChatGPT?

With the recent developments in AI, you may be feeling a little obsolete.

May 4, 2023 •

Arielle Friedman

January 2023

Two Theories on Success and Death

When Alexander the Great led his armies into Persia, he burned his ships, destroying their only point of retreat.

Jan 27, 2023 •

Arielle Friedman

October 2022

Halloween: Past, Present, Future

When I was a child, Halloween was a happy time.

Oct 31, 2022 •

Arielle Friedman

Announcing Liminal, new literary publication

Excited to let you guys know, I’m working on a new literary journal called Liminal, a multimedia project focused on crisis, transformation and…

Oct 6, 2022 •

Arielle Friedman

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