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Unsubject is a public notebook for disciplined curiosity. Host Simon Lee explores the patterns behind markets, technology, history, and the human mind.
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since March 8, 2023
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Lately I have watched a lot of AI-made content online. Some of it is garbage, but some is good enough that I forward it to friends on WhatsApp so they will watch it too.
More and more people accept content made with AI, which is also a fact.
But think one step further, AI content can go in several …
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Every night the news draws the same line. Left or right. Pundits place the parties on it, pollsters place the voters on it, and each of us is quietly asked to find our spot and stand there. We have used this line because it is quick and everyone understands it. But over the years I have come to thi…
His name is Punch. He is seven months old, weighs perhaps half a kilogram, and lives at Ichikawa City Zoo outside Tokyo. His mother rejected him at birth. His peers bully him — dragging him by the hair, shoving him away from food. He has no allies in his troop, no one to groom him, no warmth to ret…
Imagine you are tasked with building a perfect simulation of a bat.
You have access to everything science knows about bat cognition: the mechanics of echolocation, the neural architecture that processes sonar signals, the frequency ranges the bat uses to navigate in darkness, to locate prey, to avo…
Information is the representation of reality.
It sounds simple, even trivial, but if you stay with it for a moment, it begins to open into something vast.
The universe once existed without anyone to think about information. There was no record, no communication, no trace of thought except the tho…
The Illusion of Simplification
For shareholders of HSBC Holdings PLC, the proposed privatization of Hang Seng Bank (HASE) is a textbook case study of how politics and institutional concerns trump shareholders’ interests. Despite the elegant management’s narrative put forward by HSBC and Hang Seng, …
Two hundred and fifty years is a blink in the span of human civilization. Empires have risen and fallen over centuries; religions have endured for millennia. Yet in that quarter of a millennium, the United States compressed more transformation into its history than perhaps any other society. What m…
It was 1954. Millions of Americans sat glued to their television sets as Senator Joseph McCarthy, once the most feared man in Washington, was humiliated during the Army–McCarthy hearings. “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” the famous rebuke rang out, and the chamber fell silent. For many, it was …
Tesla’s second quarter of 2025 was brutal: deliveries fell 13.5% year-on-year, revenue contracted 12%, and operating margins compressed to mid-single digits. Yet, in the middle of this slump, the board is asking shareholders to approve the largest CEO pay package in corporate history—potentially wo…
What if I told you that Southeast Asia — one of the fastest-growing regions in the world — rests on fragile arches without keystones?
Indonesia, the demographic engine. Thailand, the geographic pivot. Two nations that hold up ASEAN. But here’s the paradox: their democracies look complete — parliame…
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