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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 addressable markets and enormous economies of scale. The marginal costs of adding new customers are often near-zero. This simple…
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The high-profile collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX has brought the Effective Altruist (EA) community into the public spotlight for the first time…
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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…
In The Sight of the Unwise
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…
In The Sight of the Unwise
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…
In The Sight of the Unwise
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…
In The Sight of the Unwise
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…
In The Sight of the Unwise
Anyone who has spent much time in a school playground will know that childhood games are often of extraordinary complexity, with rules incomprehensible…
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