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Whose Mistake US Slavery?
Most people today are confident that the US in 1860 having ~4M slaves (out of its 31M population) was a big moral mistake.
Mar 14
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We Submit By Banning Blackmail
An ancient forager norm tells us to resist domination.
Mar 9
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Insider Journalism
Insider Journalism
Mar 8
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Are Humans Egalitarian?
A common motive for studying “egalitarian” primitive social practices is a hope of supporting something like the following narrative:
Mar 7
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February 2026
Macro Cultural Debt
The personal lives of Olympic medalists seem overwhelmingly devoted to practicing their sport; a dreary life.
Feb 28
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Buying News By Metric
For many decades I’ve thought about how to reform areas of life via finding ways to measure the long term outcomes people want from each area, and then…
Feb 25
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Treat Info Institutions Alike
“Info institutions” solicit contributions, aggregate them into info summaries, and distribute such summaries to audiences.
Feb 24
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Our Modern Mistake
People hate to be given direct orders, especially if they will have to visibly follow such orders, and especially if they feel rivalrous with those who…
Feb 21
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AI is Acceleration
I was once an AI researcher, and since then I’ve been both an economist and a futurist for many decades.
Feb 20
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Mature Cultural Desire
A common immature attitude to desire is to assume that you are entitled to what you passionately desire, and to then cry if you don’t get it, to…
Feb 15
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Capitalist ≠ Voluntary
Time for a status update on cultural drift. I’ve been pondering solutions, and now see at best only three weakly promising options. The other possible…
Feb 14
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Situate Your Essay
Having been academic researcher for over forty years now, I am well aware of academia’s many big failures as an intellectual system.
Feb 12
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