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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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December 2022
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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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. 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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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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March 2022
Episode Twenty-Three: His Yoke Is Easy
Anyone who has spent much time in a school playground will know that childhood games are often of extraordinary complexity, with rules incomprehensible…
Mar 14, 2022
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December 2021
Episode Twenty-Two: The Big NHS Problem No One Talks About
Following on from a post about Warren Buffett, it seems appropriate to carry on with the theme and talk about capital allocation, this time in the…
Dec 10, 2021
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November 2021
Episode Twenty-One: Bad Lessons from Buffett
This is a very under-appreciated tweet: While /r/wallstreetbets gets all the headlines after Gamestop, the cult of Buffett keeps on chugging along…
Nov 15, 2021
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October 2021
Episode Twenty: The Ghost of John Paul Vann
With Afghanistan firmly back in Taliban hands, there have been remarkably few Vietnam comparisons, perhaps a sign that the collective cultural memory of…
Oct 8, 2021
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