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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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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…
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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…
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