Rules for Epistemic Warfare?

In partisan contests of various forms, dishonesty, polarization, and groupthink are widespread. Political warfare creates societal collateral damage: it makes…

The Future of Nuclear Arms Control?

Nuclear arms control is like limiting people to 10 bullets… but where sometimes a truck bomb counts as a bullet. Though it is difficult enforce agreements on qualities rather than quantities, if it were possible to regulate total nuclear weapon yield and targeting rules, rather than the number of weapons, states should be able to establish more robust deterrence without threatening global nuclear winter.

Epistemic Warfare

Lying and censorship are both adversarial games: they are applied by some for an advantage over others. All else being…

Competitive Universal Basic Services?

How to boost welfare in a more efficient manner than universal basic income without facing unsustainable socialist bloat?

The Alignment-Competence Trade-Off, Part 1: Coalition Size and Signaling Costs

Virtue signaling and moralistic anger are both forces that have been useful for holding people accountable, and powerful mechanisms of cultural evolution: spreading some norms more successfully than others, and resulting in many societies holding similar norms.