Strategies, algorithms, and schemes for making the future a better place.
How to improve the global economy, increase strategic stability, and safeguard the far future.
In partisan contests of various forms, dishonesty, polarization, and groupthink are widespread. Political warfare creates societal collateral damage: it makes…
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.
Lying and censorship are both adversarial games: they are applied by some for an advantage over others. All else being…
How to boost welfare in a more efficient manner than universal basic income without facing unsustainable socialist bloat?
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.
The Cybersecurity Dilemma: Hacking, Trust, and Fear Between Nations organizes its arguments in a fairly no-nonsense, premise –> premise –>…
On a recent panel on nuclear modernization and arms control at Brookings, there were a few points made about the…
Due to their tremendous power, nuclear weapons were a subject of intense secrecy and taboo in the US government following…
Nuclear modernization, the triad, and why determining good ways to reduce nuclear risk is very hard.
