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Episode Thirty-Five: It's a Party

A throwaway line in a recent Bloomberg piece caught our eye:

Dec 12, 2024 • 

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Episode Thirty-Four: GroundMOD Day

Once again Britain is conducting a large-scale Strategic Defence Review, just four years after the last one.

Dec 10, 2024 • 

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April 2024

Episode Thirty-Three: Something Going Wrong with the Bomb

The Hydrogen Bomb, Dmitri.

Apr 19, 2024 • 

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October 2023

Episode Thirty-Two: Bonfire of the Think Tanks

Barring a fairly major miracle, Labour are going to win the next election.

Oct 2, 2023 • 

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April 2023

Episode Thirty-One: Baby Bambi

Molly-Mae Hague is 23 years old and undeniably much smarter than you.

Apr 24, 2023 • 

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December 2022

Episode Thirty: Uber, For Religion

It is a truism of finance that some businesses scale much better than others.

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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October 2022

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.

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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August 2022

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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July 2022

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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April 2022

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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