Archive - In The Sight of the Unwise

Episode Thirty-Seven: Constitutional Reform

Midway through 2025, everyone agrees the British state needs reform (or, if your name is Nigel Farage, you think it needs Reform as well).

Jun 26 •

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Episode Thirty-Six: GroundMOD Day Part Two!

Even by the low and falling standards of British governance, one might expect a Strategic Defence Review to contain a great many concrete…

Jun 4 •

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December 2024

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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