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AI-Generated Content: Training AI in Thinking
One focus of this blog has been the use of advanced computation to solve social problems. For instance, I have...
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Capital as the Universal Limiting Factor
Economists can - and must - argue over the finer points of how money emerged/emerges in a society. In fact,...
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The Limits of Capital
How much capital would be required to permanently end poverty and all other financial challenges including, but not limited to,...
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After Nations
Nuanced critiques problematising the idea of the nation-state have long been in existence and continue to be produced. At its simplest, the nation-state can be seen as one way of organising large numbers of human beings into a cohesive community. The need to critique the very idea of the nation-state stems from the way identities are constructed to provide a rationale for organising a specific population into a certain type of nation.
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Planetary Times
Over very long periods of time, are human beings and any other life forms that they can presently exercise control...
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Post-mortality
A helpful way of understanding the emergence of life extension technologies is through the concept of "longevity escape velocity". To...
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Ending Violence
A lot of policy rhetoric speaks of reducing violence in society. But an important question is when can we end...