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Episode Thirty-Two: Bonfire of the Think Tanks
Barring a fairly major miracle, Labour are going to win the next election. Any reasonable probability of a Starmer majority should be over 90% and the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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