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My podcast cohost Agnes Callard has been thinking lately about why we don’t have more deep conversations wherein we try to figure out important things together.
There’s an off chance that futarchy might solve cultural drift, if we could show that it works, then get some big place to adopt it, and also get them to set an outcome metric in conflict with civ collapse.
Capitalism today is in chains, allowed to perform many social functions, but held back from realizing its full potential.
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The first diary in a series which looks at significant species in the evolution of humans. Humans evolved from apelike ancestors. This idea was first put forth in 1859, when Charles Darwin wrote On the Origin of Species and spelled out his idea of evolution through natural selection. At that time, most people accepted the religious … Continue reading Hominins →
Power, Philosophy, and the Perils of Idealism: Plato’s Republic Reimagined Through Political Upheaval
Back in December, you hopefully thoroughly immersed yourself in The Map of Physics, an animated video–a visual aid for the modern age–that mapped out the field of physics, explaining all the connections between classical physics, quantum physics, and relativity. You can’t do physics without math. Hence we now have The Map of Mathematics. Created by physicist Dominic Walliman, this […]
The US president is going to give us a thousand years of woke
