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The post-political magazine.

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  1. Dec 10

    This is what social scientists actually believe

    Technologists, please repeat after me: "I am not a social scientist. I do not understand how good governance works." Then go hire social scientists and ethicists who do, integrate them in your teams, and stop talking nonsense. (CC )
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  2. Dec 8

    "Whether one finds this intriguing or frightening is a matter of taste."

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  3. Dec 8

    "A programmer class conscious of its potential to fill the now-vacant priestly role can leverage this position for arbitrary ends, design its systems to shape the reality of its choosing."

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    Dec 5

    I wrote about communications technologies, the role of priestly classes in society, the waning of journalism and waxing of programming

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    Dec 5

    MUST READ: at on information flows and power

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    Dec 5

    "A programmer class conscious of its potential to fill the now vacant priestly role can leverage its position for arbitrary ends, design its systems to shape the reality of its choosing. Whether one finds this intriguing or frightening is a matter of taste."

    JUST PUBLISHED: on the priesthood of programmers
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  7. Dec 5

    JUST PUBLISHED: on the priesthood of programmers

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  8. Dec 3

    "How do you do, fellow tech kids. Us leftists can do this innovation thing too!"

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  9. Dec 3

    Government-controlled, commodity-backed cryptocurrency is better known as "currency"

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  10. Dec 2

    We've been translated into Bulgarian

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    Dec 2

    Modernity has a fertility problem. At the demographic level, modernity selects systematically against modern populations. The people it prefers, it consumes:

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    Nov 29
    Replying to and

    Ultra-Individualist Classical Liberals don't really have a place to go now. Their values work only when everyone else basically accepts them/respects them, so they never really 'win the argument', anyway.

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  13. Nov 29

    Teenage Reddit atheists have some strong opinions about us

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    Oct 22

    Just check it out- How Self-Determination and Market Governance Can Create A Much More Peaceful And Prosperous World

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    Nov 24

    Some post-political mood music I composed for

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  16. Nov 27

    "I can’t help but wonder if we’ve lost far more than we have gained. For every advantage outlined above I could recount a tale about the way things used to be."

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  17. Nov 24

    Fecundity and Forgetting, reflections on gentrification in London |

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  18. Nov 22

    Capitalism doesn't require everyone clapping their hands and believing to work. That's why it's good

    Socialists Are Winning The Battle Of Ideas: we're persuading people, and conservatives seem to have almost given up on pretending their ideology makes sense
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    Nov 20

    "Independence, in its geopolitical sense, fuses liberty and security indissociably." Property is security. Unsecured property will be secured by someone else.

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  20. Nov 20

    "The trends [...] are by any realistic estimation irresistible. Cheaper and more diverse nightmare weaponry is becoming available within an increasingly disintegrated international order."

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