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Episode Thirty-One: Baby Bambi
Molly-Mae Hague is 23 years old and undeniably much smarter than you. She lives in a large house in Cheshire with lots of grey cushions (+300 points…
Apr 24
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Episode Thirty: Uber, For Religion
It is a truism of finance that some businesses scale much better than others. The 2010s were the decade of tech: huge software businesses with vast…
Dec 25, 2022
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Episode Twenty-Nine: The Methods of Rationality
The high-profile collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX has brought the Effective Altruist (EA) community into the public spotlight for the first time…
Dec 7, 2022
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Episode Twenty-Eight: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Bomb
Over at LessWrong, physicist Max Tegmark argues there is a one in 6 chance of imminent nuclear war. The eminent and august forecasters at Swift Centre…
Oct 28, 2022
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Episode Twenty-Seven: The Route to Power
Endless column inches and quite a few books will no doubt be written about Britain’s shortest prime ministerial tenure of all time, but there might just…
Oct 22, 2022
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Episode Twenty-Six: Pinkerian Politics
This is intended as a provocative suggestion more than a thoroughly well-thought-out thesis: I don’t have the time to research how well this idea holds…
Aug 12, 2022
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Episode Twenty-Five: The Will to Act
One of the more odd aspects of the last few days of constitutional psychodrama emerged in the discussions relating to the prospect of the Prime Minister…
Jul 8, 2022
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Episode Twenty-Four: No Time To Die
In a previous post we talked about the British state’s long-term tendency to under-invest in modern hardware and software, transferring money away from…
Apr 2, 2022
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