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Subjects

58 subjects with somebody on record, 2 more in the vocabulary waiting for a claim

The words this archive files claims under. Each one opens a chronology: every dated position that matches it, oldest to newest, with who holds it.

Why the list is short, and why some terms are not links.

The vocabulary is curated and closed. Pulling proper nouns out of the text automatically was the obvious alternative, and it produces chips of equal weight for "Amazing", "Instead" and "Rust" — so a term goes in when somebody has read the claims it would gather. That means the list runs slightly ahead of the archive: a term nobody is on record under yet is printed here without a link, because its page would render perfectly and hold nothing, which reads as a broken link rather than an honest empty one.

The count is people, not claims. Four claims under one subject can be one person four times, and the question worth answering before you click is how many people are on record.

coding agents 15 people on record
What do coding agents change about software work?
LLMs 15 people on record
AI alignment 13 people on record
How dangerous is AI, and how soon?
America 11 people on record
energy 11 people on record
Where does the energy come from, and what is stopping it?
Anthropic 10 people on record
government 10 people on record
What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.
OpenAI 10 people on record
China 8 people on record
open source 8 people on record
AI and jobs 7 people on record
Whether AI displaces human work, which jobs go first, and what replaces them.

Will AI take the jobs?
ambition 7 people on record
How much to take on and how hard to push: superlinear returns to effort, focus, slack time, and procrastination.
Psychotherapy 7 people on record
Treatment by conversation between a therapist and a patient, and the arguments about what in it actually does the work.

What makes psychotherapy work?
Europe 6 people on record
startups 6 people on record
data centers 5 people on record
developer tools 5 people on record
interest rates 5 people on record
Does public debt cost what we think it does?
AGI 4 people on record
benchmarks 4 people on record
economists 4 people on record
The economists themselves and the schools they founded -- Smith, Mill, Keynes, Hayek, Friedman -- rather than any one economic question.
Google 4 people on record
Russia 4 people on record
Trauma 4 people on record
What overwhelming experience leaves behind, and whether it is stored in the body, the memory, or the loop between them.
HuggingFace 3 people on record
JavaScript 3 people on record
Nix 3 people on record
A package manager and build system built on reproducible, declarative package definitions, and the NixOS distribution built on it.
Omarchy 3 people on record
An opinionated Arch Linux and Hyprland desktop setup created by DHH and released in June 2025. 37signals adopted it company-wide the following August.
public debt 3 people on record
the cloud 3 people on record
Addiction 2 people on record
Compulsive use that continues through the harm it causes — and the argument about whether it is a disease, a choice, or a response to pain.
CBT 2 people on record
Cognitive behavioural therapy: brief, structured, usually delivered from a manual, and the most heavily trialled form of talking treatment.
crypto 2 people on record
EMDR 2 people on record
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: a trauma therapy in which the patient recalls a memory while moving their eyes from side to side. Recommended as a first-line PTSD treatment; whether the eye movements themselves do anything is still argued about.
inflation 2 people on record
market efficiency 2 people on record
MCP 2 people on record
The Model Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI models to external tools and data.
quantitative easing 2 people on record
self-driving cars 2 people on record
solar 2 people on record
TypeScript 2 people on record
A typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.
value investing 2 people on record
ARC-AGI 1 person on record
A benchmark created by Francois Chollet that tests whether a system can solve novel reasoning tasks it was not trained on.
Attachment theory 1 person on record
That early bonds shape how a person seeks and avoids closeness for the rest of their life, and the couples work built on that claim.
CSS 1 person on record
documentation 1 person on record
immigration 1 person on record
Linux 1 person on record
Narcissism 1 person on record
From a trait to a personality disorder, and whether the people at the far end of it can be treated at all.
personal websites 1 person on record
Publishing on something you own: plain text, formats that outlive their vendor, and syndicating from your own site outward.
Polyvagal theory 1 person on record
Stephen Porges’s account of the vagus nerve as the switch between defence and social connection. Widely used in trauma therapy and contested in physiology.
psychedelics 1 person on record
Psychodynamic therapy 1 person on record
The tradition descended from psychoanalysis: open-ended sessions working on self-knowledge and the therapy relationship, rather than a manual.
remote work 1 person on record
Ruby on Rails 1 person on record
The web framework created by DHH and released in 2004.
SaaS 1 person on record
Schema therapy 1 person on record
An approach developed by Jeffrey Young for personality disorders, working on the life patterns laid down in childhood and the modes a person switches between.
SQLite 1 person on record
An embedded SQL database engine that runs inside the application rather than as a separate server.

In the vocabulary, nobody on record yet

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