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Industrial Greatness Requires Economic Depressions
The state’s role in supporting economic growth is critical. Our wealth comes from industry, that is, from the ability to mass produce goods—more goods…
Feb 27
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The Failed Strategy of Artificial Intelligence Doomers
In recent decades, a growing coalition has emerged to oppose the development of artificial intelligence technology, for fear that the imminent…
Feb 1
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December 2024
The Christmas Truce
On Christmas Day, 1914, in the middle of World War I, the guns fell silent.
Dec 25, 2024
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November 2024
Medieval Chinese Economic Progress: Acceleration and Stagnation
This is a transcript of a talk I gave at the Progress Conference in 2024, lightly edited for clarity and readability.
Nov 20, 2024
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Medieval Chinese Economic Progress: Acceleration and Stagnation
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Against Extroversion
There’s a common idea in pop psychology that people are either “extroverts” or “introverts”. This isn’t totally wrong but I don’t think the usual…
Nov 13, 2024
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October 2024
On Rational Economic Behavior
The biggest error holding back many economic thinkers is the idea that rational profit-maximization is the way that people make economic decisions…
Oct 2, 2024
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August 2024
The Limits to Growth Are Interplanetary
For centuries, men have believed that rising wealth and population would soon deplete all available resources, causing mass death and social collapse…
Aug 16, 2024
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The Academic Culture of Fraud
In 2006, Sylvain Lesné and seven coauthors published a paper on Alzheimer’s disease, “A specific amyloid-beta protein assembly in the brain impairs…
Aug 2, 2024
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The Academic Culture of Fraud
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July 2024
America And The Future
Americans are notorious idealists, but our ideals haven’t stayed within this country. The American conceptions of virtues— democracy, freedom of speech…
Jul 4, 2024
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June 2024
The Fourth Form Of Government
Traditionally we think of government as coming in three forms.
Jun 12, 2024
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May 2024
Looking Beyond the Veil
In A Study of History, Arnold Toynbee the Younger says that every big religion or ideology starts as esoteric mysticism with profound, transformative…
May 1, 2024
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April 2024
Computers Are Overrated
Since the ancestors of homo sapiens first made tools out of rocks and sticks and grass, society has been transformed by the development of ever more…
Apr 24, 2024
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