# Deffufas

> Essays by Mohamed Elrashid (MoEL). Things worth saying — on Sudan,
> forecasting, sport, and philosophy. Posts are short, argued, and meant
> to be cited.

Author: Mohamed Elrashid ran emergency food operations in Sudan, worked
the democratic transition, and spent time in several sports front offices.
Studied philosophy at Toronto and Leuven. Based in Brussels. The blog's
tagline is "against domination."

The full corpus in a single file is at [/llms-full.txt](https://mo-el.xyz/llms-full.txt).
The site sitemap is at [/sitemap.xml](https://mo-el.xyz/sitemap.xml).

## Sudan

- [Help Sudan with better forecasts](https://mo-el.xyz/blog/help-sudan-with-better-forecasts/): introducing the Metaculus Sudan community page and its questions on hunger, displacement, and peace negotiations.
- [Comment: Deliver fast](https://mo-el.xyz/blog/comment-deliver-fast/): a Financial Times letter responding to Hamdok on Sudan — the need for realistic policy and a politics of delivery.

## Philosophy and AI

- [The National Securitization of AI](https://mo-el.xyz/blog/national-securitization-of-ai/): US AI policy is being absorbed into the national security state; the default end is total capture, the wrong home for the deepest questions AI raises, and it recasts the people who build and study AI as outsiders.
- [Electrification](https://mo-el.xyz/blog/electrification/): low- and middle-income countries cannot win the US-China AI capability race, but they can organize to absorb cheap, ever-cheaper metered intelligence, by securing a supply and putting it to use.
- [Fellow Creatures](https://mo-el.xyz/blog/fellow-creatures/): we are already constituting AIs as fellow creatures through our practices; the question is whether they recognize us back.

## Sport

- [Director of football is a public job](https://mo-el.xyz/blog/director-of-football-is-a-public-job/): the DOF is a steward of something that belongs to the supporters; the authority to run personnel demands the weight of public explanation.
- [What Pitchers Might Become](https://mo-el.xyz/blog/what-pitchers-might-become/): on the gap between what pitchers are and what they might become, and why that gap shows up in management as often as in scouting.

## Forecasting

- [Good Forecasts, Bad Products](https://mo-el.xyz/blog/good-forecasts-bad-products/): forecasting is not underdeveloped as a capability; it is underdeveloped as a product.

## About

- [About the author](https://mo-el.xyz/about/)