Rules for Epistemic Warfare?

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

Steelmanning Different Futures for Nuclear Arms Control?

A lot of this post is likely wrong, but it is meant to highlight how the possibility space for desirable arms control may be very wide depending on what assumptions are not baked in stone.

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?

A way to boost welfare in a more efficient manner than universal basic income without facing unsustainable spending 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.