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.
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.
Policy around war and weapons is complex and important. Getting policy right can greatly decrease war deaths and the odds…
How bad media ruins defense, and good media prevents overreach.
A hastily compiled list of steelman arguments for arms races under certain constraints.
If all lives are equally precious, they should not always be treated that way.
