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Tomas Pueyo
Personal blog · unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.comeconomicsscienceai
Tomas Pueyo writes Uncharted Territories, a personal blog at unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com about economics, science and ai. Since 2021, 85 different Hacker News readers have linked it 121 times, most often “Seaflooding”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (22) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Tomas Pueyo's posts to support points on pandemic variants, climate interventions, housing policy, US economic history and demographics. One commenter calls a Substack-vs-Medium post a good write-up.
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- One commenter calls a post a good write-up comparing Substack and Medium.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 22 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Understand the world of today to prepare for the world of tomorrow: AI, tech, longevity, fertility, the future of democracy, energy, education, and more. Click to read Uncharted Territories, by Tomas Pueyo, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
Most-linked posts?
- Seaflooding5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-05-10
- You Can Easily Delay Climate Change Today: SO2 Injection4 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2024-03-05
- What would you do if you had 8 years left to live?4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-06-20
- Why I Don't Invest in Real Estate4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-04-27
- Why Japan succeeds despite stagnation3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-02-17
- OpenAI and the Biggest Threat in the History of Humanity3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-11-21
- The Megaflood that created the Mediterranean2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-02-08
- Where Geniuses Hide Today – By Tomas Pueyo2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-01-31
- The Global Chessboard2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-19
- Coronavirus: Game Over2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-17
What Hacker News says?
That’s a common misconception. The U.S. actually became the world’s largest industrial power before World War I. Germany had 60% of the US’s GDP per capita in 1910. It dipped during the war itself, but by 1960 it was closer to 70%. https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/us-gdp-per-cap... .
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on “U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications”Submitted Why is Chile so long? as a story · 1441 points
HN discussionI am not a professional. I have been basing a lot of my virus information from Tomas Pueyo. Here is my source: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/the-omicron-qu... In this article he clarified that generally viruses that spread more are less severe (as killing the host makes it tougher to spread). The asymptotic nature of Covid sort of broke this assumption because Covid can lie dormant in someone for a w…
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on “Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study”Submitted Can solar costs keep shrinking? as a story · 401 points
HN discussion> shepherding him through what one Recreation and Parks Department official described as the “arduous and achingly bureaucratic tasks” necessary just to be eligible for housing. I'm going to risk a political statement and say that this is why I'm mostly hopeful about DOGE, even if parts of it are a shit show. Building civilization comes with a hefty dose of institutional entropy, which keeps accumulating, despite (o…
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on “San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time”Submitted Delta Variant as a story · 301 points
HN discussionFirst-time home buyers are getting squeezed by a combination of peaking market forces, but those forces are peaking and we're probably seeing the worst of it at this moment [1]. It will get better. [1] https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-i-dont-inv...
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on “Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts”Submitted Why Germany won’t keep its nuclear plants open as a story · 283 points
HN discussionAt first I thought the dwarf elephants would have come as a result of the Zanclean megaflood [0] of 5m years ago, which did cause some odd sized animals like the small dog sized rabbit Nuralagus [1], but the Mediterranean dwarf elephants did not appear until 2.5m years ago [2]. 0. https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/the-zanclean-m... 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuralagus 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…
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on “The appendix is not, in fact, useless”Submitted What China Wants and Why as a story · 94 points
HN discussionhttps://thezvi.wordpress.com/2021/01/07/22334/ Cuomo has been known-terrible for a long time. --- https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/delta-variant-... discusses "The Hammer and the Dance", an article published in March 2020, that correctly flagged the risk of mutations. https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1368229958158610435 https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-variant-in-brazil-over... WSJ, writing in March…
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on “Mosquito saliva alone has profound effects on the human immune system (2018)”Submitted Why Is California the Way It Is? as a story · 86 points
HN discussionWe're doing deliberate tests with sulfur dioxide instead of CaCO3, more info here: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/so2-injection
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on “East Asian aerosol cleanup has likely contributed to global warming”Submitted The Global Chessboard as a story · 84 points
HN discussionI found this to be a pretty good blog post summarizing China's geographical interests. https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/what-china-wan... Obviously they project soft power further, but it is based on economic leverage in the same way that the USA has been doing since WW2. For example, that French museum exhibition was dependent on a Chinese museum to do their exhibition. That dependency came with string…
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on “Chinese activist Ai Weiwei says Credit Suisse closing foundation's bank account”Submitted The Omicron Question as a story · 70 points
HN discussionThis is a good write up on the difference between Substack and Medium. https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/the-future-of-...
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on “Ask HN: Is Substack the new Medium?”Submitted Why I Don't Invest in Real Estate as a story · 60 points
HN discussionAnd, I'm saying this in the nicest way possible, gives you the right to make up rules on what I can do with my property? Measures as drastic as this need correspondingly dire reasons. You can call it "housing crisis", but the truth is there are many ways to fix this that don't come even close to this level of communism. Dezoning, for once - I've linked this before: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-j…
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on “Barcelona buys apartment building at center of eviction protests”Submitted Why warm countries are poorer as a story · 56 points
HN discussionThis post is most likely related to a recent post on HN: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/so2-injection
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on “Volcanoes can affect climate”Submitted Argentina Could Be a Superpower as a story · 38 points
HN discussionThat might be true, but this paper is wildly unconvincing. Cross-country comparisons have way too many confounding factors. Not least that economic growth reduces population growth. As for an aging population slowing the economy, Japan is the classic example of the dynamic: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/why-japan-succ... Looking within-country during a retirement boom seems more informative than tryi…
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on “No evidence ageing/declining populations compromise socio-economic performance”Submitted Why Is Moscow So Weird? as a story · 32 points
HN discussionThanks for sharing the link! The article focuses on Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB), an unscalable method of solar radiation management. MCB would require thousands of autonomous boats (ideally running without fossil fuels) to locate suitable low-altitude ocean clouds and spray them with finely misted saltwater to increase their reflectivity. At best, this method might achieve localized cooling over ocean areas, but…
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on “Earth breaches 1.5 °C climate limit for the first time: what does it mean?”Submitted Solar Energy Solves Global Warming as a story · 32 points
HN discussionYou'd win that bet: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/about > I believe Bitcoin will replace gold, cryptocurrencies will replace fiat currencies, and smart contracts will upend how we deal with each other. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aunchartedterritories....
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on “When Will AI Take Your Job?”Submitted When Will AI Take Your Job? as a story · 32 points
HN discussion> In fact, "unelected bureaucrats" have been the key to whatever degree of success this democracy has enjoyed. False. The idea of governance by "neutral technocrats" insulated from politics was nascent in the late 19th century. Woodrow Wilson wrote a seminal paper on it in 1887: https://ballotpedia.org/%22The_Study_of_Administration%22_by... . He took steps to implement the idea during his presidency, but the modern…
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on “WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants”Submitted Mexico Before Europeans as a story · 19 points
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